Synopsis
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm
Scores
Popularity Percentile (Year)
32.4%
Box Office Percentile (Year)
28.7%
Critic Consensus
95.8% Fresh • 24 critic reviews
Critic reception is largely positive, with 96% of 24 logged reviews marked Fresh. Across reviews, critics repeatedly emphasize character-driven, emotional, visually striking. Most critics frame the film as an effective delivery of its core style and intent.
character-drivenemotionalvisually strikingthought-provokingrealistic
Aggregated Reviews
Rotten Tomatoes critic score96.0
RT critic review count27
Rotten Tomatoes audience score78.0
RT audience rating count2,500
IMDb rating7.0
IMDb votes2,115
Box Office ?
| Category | Year | Reported | Inflation Adjusted |
|---|
| Domestic | 2007 | $105,422 | $159,532 |
| International | 2007 | N/A | N/A |
| Worldwide | 2007 | $105,422 | $159,532 |
Earnings / Profitability
Estimated net revenues and net expenses for films based on reported and estimated numbers. This income statement should be considered most viable for the first 24 months after the inital movie's release (ie after most lucrative pay windows).
| Category | Year | Reported | Inflation Adjusted |
|---|
| Revenues |
| Theatrical Net Revenue | 2007 | $52,711 | $79,766 |
| Digital Rentals ? | 2007 | $279,000 | $422,201 |
| Digital Purchases ? | 2007 | $104,000 | $157,380 |
| Physical Rentals ? | 2007 | $4,808,000 | $7,275,782 |
| Physical Purchases ? | 2007 | $10,805,000 | $16,350,836 |
| TV & Streaming Revenue | 2007 | $52,711 | $79,766 |
| Total Revenues | 2007 | $16,101,422 | $24,365,730 |
| Expenses |
| Budget ? | 2007 | $218,000 (est) | $329,892 (est) |
| Print & Advertising (P&A) ? | 2007 | $84,000 (est) | $127,114 (est) |
| Participations | 2007 | $644,000 | $974,543 |
| Residuals ? | 2007 | $1,164,000 | $1,761,441 |
| Interest & Overhead | 2007 | $43,600 | $65,978 |
| Total Expenses | 2007 | $2,153,600 | $3,258,969 |
| Movie Net Profit or Loss | 2007 | $13,947,822 | $21,106,761 |
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Tooltips
- Budget Estimated using Machine Learning
- Digital Rentals: PVOD, VOD, & On-Demand
- Marketing & distribution costs to release Movie in Theaters. Includes: Online & Offline Ads, Posters, Trailer Production, and physical or digital copies (formerly "prints") sent to cinemas.
- Net Digital Purchase Revenue
- Net Revenues for Physical Rentals: VHS, DVD, BluRay (when appropriate)
- Physical Purchases: VHS $0, DVD $10,460,000, BluRay $345,000
- Reported or Estimated Net Budget (after tax, product placements, & grants)
- Theatrical box office grosses split into Domestic, International, and Worldwide totals.
- Union-modeled residuals using SAG-AFTRA and WGA schedules as a simplified estimate proxy.
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Budget Tooltip
Reported or Estimated Net Budget (after tax, product placements, & grants)
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