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#3,982 All-time worldwide
#131 2010 releases

Movie profile

For Colored Girls

2010 · 134 min · Tyler Perry Studios

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $38.0M
Budget $21.0M
Gross minus budget $17.0M
ROI 1.81x

Domestic gross

$19.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$19.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where For Colored Girls 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 #3,982 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2010 releases #131 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2010. Studio / company #6 Tyler Perry Studios of 11 titles Position inside the mapped Tyler Perry Studios movie set. Primary genre #1,475 Drama of 5,859 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 For Colored Girls (2010) perform at the box office?

High confidence

For Colored Girls (2010) earned a reported $38.0M worldwide against a reported $21.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $17.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.81x. In this database it currently ranks #3,982 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #131 among 2010 releases.

Worldwide gross
$38,000,000
Budget
$21,000,000
Gross minus budget
$17,000,000
ROI
1.81x
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

A film about existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 5, 2010
Production
Tyler Perry Studios, 34th Street Films, Lionsgate
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2010, For Colored Girls is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Tyler Perry Studios. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $38.0M, reported production budget is $21.0M, gross-minus-budget is $17.0M, ROI is 1.81x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,982 all-time in the current chart set and #131 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.