Editing Mary Poppins (film) (section)

===Box office===
''Mary Poppins'' earned $31&nbsp;million in theatrical rentals in the United States and Canada during its initial run.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=All Time Box-Office Champs|magazine=Variety|date=January 4, 1967|page=9}}</ref> It was one of the top 12 grossing films in the United States for 32 weeks.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety |date= March 20, 1968|page=5|last=Beaupre|first=Lee|title=Persevering of 'Bonnie & Clyde'; 22 Times on Weekly Top Dozen}}</ref> It earned rentals of $44 million worldwide in its initial release.<ref name=WD>{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/waltdisneyameric00thom/page/345 | title=Walt Disney: An American Original | author=Bob Thomas | publisher=Pocket Books | page=[https://archive.org/details/waltdisneyameric00thom/page/345 345] | year=1976 | isbn=0-671-66232-5}}</ref>

The film was re-released theatrically in 1973, in honor of Walt Disney Productions' 50th anniversary, and earned an estimated additional $9&nbsp;million in rentals in the United States and Canada.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Big Rental Films of 1973 |magazine= Variety|date=January 9, 1974|page=19}}</ref> It was released once more in 1980 and grossed $14&nbsp;million.<ref name="newyorker" /> It returned a total lifetime rental of $45&nbsp;million in the United States and Canada<ref>{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991007042514/http://www.variety.com/numbers/video.asp|url=https://www.variety.com:80/numbers/video.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 7, 1999|title=All-Time Top Film Rentals|magazine=Variety|access-date=March 27, 2020}}</ref> to Disney from a gross of over $102&nbsp;million.<ref name=mojo />

It was the 20th most popular sound film of the 20th century in the United Kingdom with admissions of 14 million.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Ultimate Chart: 1–100|date=28 November 2004|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/complete.php|access-date=March 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803005826/http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/complete.php|archive-date=August 3, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The film was very profitable for Disney. Made on an estimated budget of $4.4–6&nbsp;million,<ref name=digibits>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy--showmanship/mary-poppins-50th-anniv|title=Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Remembering "Mary Poppins" on its 50th Anniversary|last=Coate|first=Michael|website=The Digital Bits|date=August 27, 2014|access-date=February 16, 2015|archive-date=December 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181202070754/http://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy--showmanship/mary-poppins-50th-anniv}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1964/0MAPO.php|title=Box Office Information for ''Mary Poppins''|website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]|access-date=March 5, 2013|archive-date=February 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201044717/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1964/0MAPO.php|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Hillier|Pye|2011|p=136}} it was reported by Cobbett Steinberg to be the most profitable film of 1965, earning a net profit of $28.5&nbsp;million.{{sfn|Steinberg|1980|p=25}}{{efn|When a film is released late in a calendar year (October–December), its income is reported in the following year's compendium, unless the film made a particularly fast impact.{{sfn|Steinberg|1980|p=17}}}} Walt Disney used his huge profits from the film to purchase land in central Florida and finance the construction of [[Walt Disney World]].{{sfn|Williams|Denney|2004|p=285}}