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=== Box office ===
''Scrooged'' was a moderate box office hit on release in the United States.<ref name="Forbes"/> It earned $18.6 million during its release over its [[Thanksgiving]]-extended opening weekend in the United States at 1,262 theaters. It was the highest earning film that weekend, ahead of ''[[The Land Before Time (film)|The Land Before Time]]'' ($8.1 million) and ''[[Oliver & Company]]'' ($6.3 million), both in their second weekend,<ref name="BOMOpen"/><ref name="LATimesOliver"/> and made ''Scrooged'' the fourth highest-opening weekend of the year.<ref name="BOMOverall"/>

The second weekend saw an over 40% drop, taking $7.5 million.<ref name="BOMWeekly"/> Over the Christmas holiday period itself, the film had fallen to ninth place, behind ''The Land Before Time'' and ''Oliver & Company''.<ref name="FSR"/> The film left theaters after eight weeks with a total gross of $60.3 million, making it the 13th highest-grossing film of 1988.<ref name="BOMWeekly"/><ref name="BOMOverall"/>

The film grossed $40 million overseas<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 9, 1989|last=Groves|first=Don|page=11|title=UIP Up, Up and Away For Year; Rentals Take Off}}</ref> for a worldwide total of $100.3 million.