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.