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#4,488 All-time worldwide
#135 2008 releases

Movie profile

20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End

2008 · 142 min · Cine Bazar

Science Fiction Adventure Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $31.2M
Budget $20.0M
Gross minus budget $11.2M
ROI 1.56x

Domestic gross

$12.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$18.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #4,488 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2008 releases #135 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2008. Primary genre #605 Science Fiction of 1,234 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008) perform at the box office?

High confidence

20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008) earned a reported $31.2M worldwide against a reported $20.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $11.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.56x. In this database it currently ranks #4,488 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #135 among 2008 releases.

Worldwide gross
$31,244,858
Budget
$20,000,000
Gross minus budget
$11,244,858
ROI
1.56x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 19, 2008
Production
Cine Bazar, TOHO, Toho Eizo Bijutsu
Countries
JP, TH

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyCine Bazar Franchise20Th Century Boys Release year chart2008 box office Genre chartScience Fiction Genre chartAdventure Genre chartMystery

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2008, 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End is positioned in this dataset as a Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery title from Cine Bazar. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $31.2M, reported production budget is $20.0M, gross-minus-budget is $11.2M, ROI is 1.56x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,488 all-time in the current chart set and #135 among 2008 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.