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#6,770 All-time worldwide
#192 2010 releases

Movie profile

City Under Siege

2010 · 110 min · Shanxi Film Studio

Science Fiction Action Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $13.9M
Budget $17.0M
Gross minus budget -$3.1M
ROI 0.81x

Domestic gross

$5.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$8.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where City Under Siege 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 #6,770 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2010 releases #192 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2010. Primary genre #825 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 City Under Siege (2010) perform at the box office?

High confidence

City Under Siege (2010) earned a reported $13.9M worldwide against a reported $17.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$3.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.81x. In this database it currently ranks #6,770 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #192 among 2010 releases.

Worldwide gross
$13,851,432
Budget
$17,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$3,148,568
ROI
0.81x
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

Sunny is a naïve circus performer who dreams of inheriting his father's knife-throwing skills. However, his hostile colleagues continue to bully him, relegating him to a lowly clown. On a tour to Malaysia, Cheung and other performers discover a cave occupied by the Japanese army during World War II. Instead of finding treasure, the performers - including Sunny - are sprayed with a mysterious chemical that turns them into superhuman mutants...

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 11, 2010
Production
Shanxi Film Studio, Enlight Pictures, Guangzhou Ying Ming Media Co.
Countries
HK

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyShanxi Film Studio Release year chart2010 box office Genre chartScience Fiction Genre chartAction Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2010, City Under Siege is positioned in this dataset as a Science Fiction, Action, Thriller title from Shanxi Film Studio. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $13.9M, reported production budget is $17.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$3.1M, ROI is 0.81x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,770 all-time in the current chart set and #192 among 2010 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.