#631 All-time worldwide

#10 2000 releases

Movie profile

What Lies Beneath

Name: What Lies Beneath
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 2000-07-21
Duration: 130 min

2000 · 130 min · Dream Works Pictures

Drama Horror Mystery Thriller

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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.

Worldwide gross $291.4M

Budget $100.0M

Gross minus budget $191.4M

ROI 2.91x

Domestic gross

$139.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$151.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$60.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where What Lies Beneath ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.

Open rankings

All-time worldwide #631 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2000 releases #10 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2000. Studio / company #7 Dream Works Pictures of 56 titles Position inside the mapped Dream Works Pictures movie set. Primary genre #134 Drama of 6,006 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.

#628 Salt 2010 · $293.3M #629 G-Force 2009 · $292.8M #630 The Departed 2006 · $291.5M #632 Sex and the City 2 2010 · $290.7M #633 Paddington 2 2017 · $290.1M #634 Pacific Rim: Uprising 2018 · $290.1M

Quick answer

How did What Lies Beneath (2000) perform at the box office?

High confidence

What Lies Beneath (2000) earned a reported $291.4M worldwide against a reported $100.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $191.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.91x. In this database it currently ranks #631 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #10 among 2000 releases.

Worldwide gross: $291,420,351
Budget: $100,000,000
Gross minus budget: $191,420,351
ROI: 2.91x

Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

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Story

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date: Jul 21, 2000
Production: DreamWorks Pictures, 20th Century Fox, ImageMovers
Countries: US

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Studio / production companyDream Works Pictures Release year chart2000 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartHorror Genre chartMystery Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2000, What Lies Beneath is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Horror, Mystery title from DreamWorks Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $291.4M, reported production budget is $100.0M, gross-minus-budget is $191.4M, ROI is 2.91x. For comparison, it currently sits #631 all-time in the current chart set and #10 among 2000 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.