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#2,531 All-time worldwide
#76 2008 releases

Movie profile

Death Race

2008 · 105 min · Impact Pictures

Action Thriller Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $76.0M
Budget $45.0M
Gross minus budget $31.0M
ROI 1.69x

Domestic gross

$30.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$45.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$8.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Death Race 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 #2,531 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2008 releases #76 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2008. Studio / company #2 Impact Pictures of 6 titles Position inside the mapped Impact Pictures movie set. Primary genre #929 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.

#2,528 Kate & Leopold 2001 · $76.0M #2,529 West Side Story 2021 · $76.0M #2,530 iPartment 2018 · $76.0M #2,536 Widows 2018 · $76.0M #2,537 The Pink Panther 2 2009 · $75.9M #2,538 Sicario: Day of the Soldado 2018 · $75.8M

Quick answer

How did Death Race (2008) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Death Race (2008) earned a reported $76.0M worldwide against a reported $45.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $31.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.69x. In this database it currently ranks #2,531 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #76 among 2008 releases.

Worldwide gross
$76,000,000
Budget
$45,000,000
Gross minus budget
$31,000,000
ROI
1.69x
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

Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 22, 2008
Production
Impact Pictures, Universal Pictures, Relativity Media
Countries
GB, US, DE

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyImpact Pictures FranchiseDeath Race (2008) Release year chart2008 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartThriller Genre chartScience Fiction

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2008, Death Race is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Thriller, Science Fiction title from Impact Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $76.0M, reported production budget is $45.0M, gross-minus-budget is $31.0M, ROI is 1.69x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,531 all-time in the current chart set and #76 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.