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#5,321 All-time worldwide
#87 1996 releases

Movie profile

Bulletproof

1996 · 84 min · Universal Pictures

Comedy Crime Action
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $22.6M
Budget $25.0M
Gross minus budget -$2.4M
ROI 0.90x

Domestic gross

$9.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$13.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Bulletproof 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 #5,321 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1996 releases #87 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1996. Studio / company #229 Universal Pictures of 377 titles Position inside the mapped Universal Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,085 Comedy of 4,840 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.

#5,318 The White Masai 2005 · $22.6M #5,319 The Borrowers 1997 · $22.6M #5,320 Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky 2004 · $22.6M #5,322 EuroTrip 2004 · $22.6M #5,323 Much Ado About Nothing 1993 · $22.6M #5,324 Drive Me Crazy 1999 · $22.6M

Quick answer

How did Bulletproof (1996) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Bulletproof (1996) earned a reported $22.6M worldwide against a reported $25.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$2.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.90x. In this database it currently ranks #5,321 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #87 among 1996 releases.

Worldwide gross
$22,611,954
Budget
$25,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$2,388,046
ROI
0.90x
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

An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is working undercover with the LAPD to bust Moses and Colton at a sting operation the LAPD has set up.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 6, 1996
Production
Universal Pictures
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1996, Bulletproof is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime, Action title from Universal Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $22.6M, reported production budget is $25.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$2.4M, ROI is 0.90x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,321 all-time in the current chart set and #87 among 1996 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.