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#10,200 All-time worldwide
#33 1971 releases

Movie profile

THX 1138

1971 · 86 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Science Fiction Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.4M
Budget $777,000
Gross minus budget $1.7M
ROI 3.14x

Domestic gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$219,330

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where THX 1138 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 #10,200 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1971 releases #33 Release-year chart position of 53 titles Ranked against movies released in 1971. Studio / company #241 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,074 Science Fiction of 1,234 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.

#10,197 Table for Five 1983 · $2.4M #10,198 Maurice 1987 · $2.4M #10,199 Son of the Pink Panther 1993 · $2.4M #10,201 Pickled Pink 1965 · $2.4M #10,202 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 · $2.4M #10,203 Kansas 1988 · $2.4M

Quick answer

How did THX 1138 (1971) perform at the box office?

High confidence

THX 1138 (1971) earned a reported $2.4M worldwide against a reported $777.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.14x. In this database it currently ranks #10,200 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #33 among 1971 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,437,000
Budget
$777,000
Gross minus budget
$1,660,000
ROI
3.14x
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

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 11, 1971
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures, American Zoetrope
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyWarner Bros. Pictures Release year chart1971 box office Genre chartScience Fiction Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1971, THX 1138 is positioned in this dataset as a Science Fiction, Drama title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.4M, reported production budget is $777,000, gross-minus-budget is $1.7M, ROI is 3.14x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,200 all-time in the current chart set and #33 among 1971 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.