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#2,003 All-time worldwide
#59 2009 releases

Movie profile

Where the Wild Things Are

2009 · 101 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Fantasy Drama Adventure Family
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $100.1M
Budget $100.0M
Gross minus budget $140,916
ROI 1.00x

Domestic gross

$43.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$57.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$12.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Where the Wild Things Are 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 #2,003 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #59 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #82 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #352 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.

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Quick answer

How did Where the Wild Things Are (2009) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Where the Wild Things Are (2009) earned a reported $100.1M worldwide against a reported $100.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $140.9K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.00x. In this database it currently ranks #2,003 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #59 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$100,140,916
Budget
$100,000,000
Gross minus budget
$140,916
ROI
1.00x
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

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 16, 2009
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures
Countries
US, DE

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyWarner Bros. Pictures Release year chart2009 box office Genre chartFantasy Genre chartDrama Genre chartAdventure Genre chartFamily

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, Where the Wild Things Are is positioned in this dataset as a Fantasy, Drama, Adventure title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $100.1M, reported production budget is $100.0M, gross-minus-budget is $140,916, ROI is 1.00x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,003 all-time in the current chart set and #59 among 2009 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.