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#6,442 All-time worldwide
#192 2017 releases

Movie profile

Wonder Wheel

2017 · 101 min · Gravier Productions

Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.4M
Budget $25.0M
Gross minus budget -$9.6M
ROI 0.61x

Domestic gross

$7.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$7.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Wonder Wheel 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 #6,442 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2017 releases #192 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2017. Studio / company #4 Gravier Productions of 6 titles Position inside the mapped Gravier Productions movie set. Primary genre #2,641 Drama of 5,859 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 Wonder Wheel (2017) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Wonder Wheel (2017) earned a reported $15.4M worldwide against a reported $25.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$9.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.61x. In this database it currently ranks #6,442 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #192 among 2017 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,366,466
Budget
$25,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$9,633,534
ROI
0.61x
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

The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 1, 2017
Production
Gravier Productions, Amazon Studios, Perdido Productions
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2017, Wonder Wheel is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Romance title from Gravier Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.4M, reported production budget is $25.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$9.6M, ROI is 0.61x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,442 all-time in the current chart set and #192 among 2017 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.