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#9,705 All-time worldwide
#32 1972 releases

Movie profile

Up the Sandbox

1972 · 97 min · First Artists

Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $3.5M
Budget $2.9M
Gross minus budget $574,000
ROI 1.20x

Domestic gross

$1.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$315,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Up the Sandbox 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 #9,705 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1972 releases #32 Release-year chart position of 52 titles Ranked against movies released in 1972. Studio / company #7 First Artists of 9 titles Position inside the mapped First Artists movie set. Primary genre #3,770 Comedy of 4,840 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.

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Quick answer

How did Up the Sandbox (1972) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Up the Sandbox (1972) earned a reported $3.5M worldwide against a reported $2.9M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $574.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.20x. In this database it currently ranks #9,705 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #32 among 1972 releases.

Worldwide gross
$3,500,000
Budget
$2,926,000
Gross minus budget
$574,000
ROI
1.20x
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

Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 21, 1972
Production
First Artists, Barwood Films, National General Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyFirst Artists Release year chart1972 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1972, Up the Sandbox is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama title from First Artists. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $3.5M, reported production budget is $2.9M, gross-minus-budget is $574,000, ROI is 1.20x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,705 all-time in the current chart set and #32 among 1972 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.