Love the Coopers Budget

What is the budget of Love the Coopers?

"Love the Coopers," a comedy released in 2015, was directed by Jessie Nelson and stars Diane Keaton, John Goodman. The production budget was $17,000,000, placing it in the low-budget range for comedy productions of its era.

Key Budget Allocation Categories

While specific budget breakdowns are not publicly available, typical cost drivers for a comedy production like this include:

• Talent Salaries & Producing Deals: Established comedic talent can command $15 to 20 million per film, with top-tier stars earning even more through producing credits and backend deals.
• Production & Location Filming: While comedies generally avoid the VFX costs of action films, location shooting in recognizable cities or exotic locales adds meaningful production expense.
• Marketing & P&A (Prints & Advertising): Comedies rely heavily on marketing to build opening-weekend momentum.
• Production: Love the Coopers traces its origins to The Most Wonderful Time, a Christmas screenplay by Steven Rogers which was then picked up by Relativity Media for a film adaptation to be directed by Jessie Nelson.

What were the major cost factors in Love the Coopers?

Several factors contributed to the overall production costs of "Love the Coopers."

• Talent Salaries: Talent Salaries & Producing Deals is one of the primary cost drivers in comedy productions of this scale.
• Production: Production & Location Filming is one of the primary cost drivers in comedy productions of this scale.
• Marketing: Marketing & P&A (Prints & Advertising) is one of the primary cost drivers in comedy productions of this scale.

How Does Love the Coopers's Budget Compare to Similar Films?

At $17,000,000, Love the Coopers sits in the low-budget range. Here is how it compares to productions with a similar budget:

• Away We Go (2009): Budget $17,000,000, Worldwide Gross $15,779,455
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999): Budget $17,000,000 , Gross $92,938,755
• Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003): Budget $17,000,000, Worldwide Gross $63,102,666
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997): Budget $16,500,000 , Gross $67,711,748
• Black Nativity (2013): Budget $17,500,000, Worldwide Gross $7,018,189

The median budget for wide-release comedy films in the 2010s ranges from $30 to 80M for mid-budget to $150M+ for tentpoles.

Love the Coopers Box Office Performance

"Love the Coopers" earned $26,302,731 domestically and $42,426,912 worldwide at the box office. Against a production budget of $17,000,000, the film showed modest profitability in theatrical release.

A film typically needs to earn approximately twice its production budget to cover marketing and distribution costs. For "Love the Coopers," that break-even threshold was roughly $34,000,000. With worldwide earnings of $42,426,912, the film cleared that threshold comfortably.

• Production Budget: $17,000,000
• Worldwide Gross: $42,426,912
• Net Return: $25,426,912
• ROI: approximately 149.6%

At 149.6%, "Love the Coopers" earned roughly $2.5 for every $1 invested in production.

Awards and Recognition

2 nominations total

Critical Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 19% based on 118 reviews. The site's critics consensus reads, "Love the Coopers has a talented cast and a uniquely bittersweet blend of holiday cheer in its better moments, but they're all let down by a script content to settle for cloying smarm." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 31 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.