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#7,984 All-time worldwide
#221 2012 releases

Movie profile

Bullet to the Head

2012 · 92 min · Dark Castle Entertainment

Action Crime Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $9.5M
Budget $55.0M
Gross minus budget -$45.5M
ROI 0.17x

Domestic gross

$3.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Bullet to the Head ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #7,984 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2012 releases #221 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2012. Studio / company #10 Dark Castle Entertainment of 10 titles Position inside the mapped Dark Castle Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #2,213 Action of 2,939 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.

#7,981 The Eight Mountains 2022 · $9.5M #7,982 The Square 2017 · $9.5M #7,983 Chaplin 1992 · $9.5M #7,985 Point Blank 2010 · $9.5M #7,986 Guilty by Suspicion 1991 · $9.5M #7,987 Stone 2010 · $9.5M

Quick answer

How did Bullet to the Head (2012) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Bullet to the Head (2012) earned a reported $9.5M worldwide against a reported $55.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$45.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.17x. In this database it currently ranks #7,984 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #221 among 2012 releases.

Worldwide gross
$9,489,829
Budget
$55,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$45,510,171
ROI
0.17x
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

After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 14, 2012
Production
Dark Castle Entertainment, After Dark Films, IM Global
Countries
IN, CH, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyDark Castle Entertainment Release year chart2012 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartCrime Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2012, Bullet to the Head is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Crime, Thriller title from Dark Castle Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $9.5M, reported production budget is $55.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$45.5M, ROI is 0.17x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,984 all-time in the current chart set and #221 among 2012 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.