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#4,274 All-time worldwide
#103 2002 releases

Movie profile

Darkness

2002 · 88 min · Vía Digital

Horror
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $34.0M
Budget $10.6M
Gross minus budget $23.4M
ROI 3.21x

Domestic gross

$16.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$17.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$7.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Darkness 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 #4,274 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2002 releases #103 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2002. Studio / company #1 Vía Digital of 7 titles Position inside the mapped Vía Digital movie set. Primary genre #416 Horror of 1,240 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 Darkness (2002) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Darkness (2002) earned a reported $34.0M worldwide against a reported $10.6M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $23.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.21x. In this database it currently ranks #4,274 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #103 among 2002 releases.

Worldwide gross
$33,988,736
Budget
$10,600,000
Gross minus budget
$23,388,736
ROI
3.21x
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

A teenage girl moves into a remote country home with her family, only to discover that the gloomy old house has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy them.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 11, 2002
Production
Vía Digital, Filmax Entertainment, Dimension Films
Countries
ES, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyVía Digital Release year chart2002 box office Genre chartHorror

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2002, Darkness is positioned in this dataset as a Horror title from Vía Digital. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $34.0M, reported production budget is $10.6M, gross-minus-budget is $23.4M, ROI is 3.21x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,274 all-time in the current chart set and #103 among 2002 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.