Production Budget Analysis

What was the production budget for The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)?

Directed by Noah Baumbach, with Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman leading the cast, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) was produced by IAC Films with a confirmed budget of $11,400,000, placing it in the low-budget category for comedy films.

At $11,400,000, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) was produced on a modest budget. Lower-budget films benefit from reduced break-even thresholds, with profitability achievable at approximately $28,500,000.

Budget Comparison — Similar Productions

• Parasite (2019): Budget $11,363,000 | Gross $257,591,776 → ROI: 2167% • Bottoms (2023): Budget $11,300,000 | Gross $12,976,079 → ROI: 15% • Troll 2 (2025): Budget $11,200,000 | Gross N/A • Tell No One (2006): Budget $11,700,000 | Gross N/A • Weathering with You (2019): Budget $11,100,000 | Gross $192,729,404 → ROI: 1636%

Key Budget Allocation Categories

▸ Talent Salaries & Producing Deals Established comedic talent can command $15–20 million per film, with top-tier stars earning even more through producing credits and backend deals. Comedy ensembles multiply this cost across several well-known performers.

▸ 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. Studios typically spend 50–100% of the production budget on marketing, with comedy trailers and social media campaigns being particularly expensive.

Key Production Personnel

CAST: Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Elizabeth Marvel Key roles: Adam Sandler as Danny Meyerowitz; Ben Stiller as Matthew Meyerowitz; Dustin Hoffman as Harold Meyerowitz; Emma Thompson as Maureen Meyerowitz

DIRECTOR: Noah Baumbach CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robbie Ryan MUSIC: Randy Newman EDITING: Jennifer Lame PRODUCTION: IAC Films FILMED IN: United States of America

Box Office Performance

Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Production

Principal photography on the film began March 7, 2016, in New York City. Hospital footage was filmed at Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. The scenes of Bard College were actually filmed at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Production concluded May 9, 2016.

During production, the film was known by the working title, Yeh Din Ka Kissa ("The Tale of This Day" in Hindi).

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

CRITICAL RECEPTION

On the review aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 92%, based on 189 reviews, and an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) observes the family dynamic through writer-director Noah Baumbach's bittersweet lens and the impressive efforts of a remarkable cast." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, and praised the cast and script, saying: "They're a smart and sophisticated and relatively privileged bunch, but they're miserable and ridiculous, which makes for some poignant insights and some sharp comedy. We enjoy the Meyerowitz clan, even as we praise the heavens we're not like them and we don't live next door to any of 'em."

Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers also gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4. He wrote, "Noah Baumbach's funny, literate story gives Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller plum roles – and may be the best thing he's ever done."

Peter Debruge of Variety gave the film a positive review, calling it the best Netflix film to date, and praising Sandler's performance, writing: "With no shtick to fall back on, Sandler is forced to act, and it's a glorious thing to watcheven for those fans who like him best in perpetual man-child mode (don't worry: the character is a full-grown variation on that familiar Sandler prototype)." Other critics were equal with their praise of Sandler, with various outlets calling his performance a "triumph", "miraculously great", and that "it's time to admit that Adam Sandler is actually a good actor".