Spirited Away ~ Costs
It took about ¥1.9 billion (JPY), in dollars it's $19 million. This is not a lot of money, most animated movies usually use about $50 million on average. The lifetime gross that they had made in theaters is $10,055,859. They had additional money made with DVDS, merchandise and other things. The DVD costs around $18.99 on Amazon. Other merchandise can be sold on their website, Disney's website, Etsy (from fans), Amazon, and others.
It made a total of ¥30.4 billion, $289 million in dollars. On opening weekend in Japan, it made ¥1,003,196,292.98 ($8,898,000), in the rest of the world it made $524299.77 (¥59115996.17). In the UK they made £152,504 on the opening weekend. In Spain they made €225,259 also on the opening weekend. Disney had invested 10% to the movie.