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#6,450 All-time worldwide
#106 1996 releases

Movie profile

Thinner

1996 · 92 min · Spelling Films

Fantasy Horror
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.3M
Budget $8.0M
Gross minus budget $7.3M
ROI 1.91x

Domestic gross

$7.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$8.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Thinner ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #6,450 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1996 releases #106 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1996. Primary genre #841 Fantasy of 1,285 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#6,447 No Escape 1994 · $15.3M #6,448 The Dead Don't Die 2019 · $15.3M #6,449 Woody Woodpecker 2017 · $15.3M #6,451 Hair 1979 · $15.3M #6,452 The Fountain 2006 · $15.3M #6,453 Shanghai 2010 · $15.3M

Quick answer

How did Thinner (1996) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Thinner (1996) earned a reported $15.3M worldwide against a reported $8.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.91x. In this database it currently ranks #6,450 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #106 among 1996 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,315,484
Budget
$8,000,000
Gross minus budget
$7,315,484
ROI
1.91x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the old man to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 25, 1996
Production
Spelling Films, Richard P. Rubinstein Productions
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companySpelling Films Release year chart1996 box office Genre chartFantasy Genre chartHorror

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1996, Thinner is positioned in this dataset as a Fantasy, Horror title from Spelling Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.3M, reported production budget is $8.0M, gross-minus-budget is $7.3M, ROI is 1.91x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,450 all-time in the current chart set and #106 among 1996 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.