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#2,650 All-time worldwide
#65 2002 releases

Movie profile

Ghost Ship

2002 · 91 min · Village Roadshow Pictures

Horror Mystery Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $71.1M
Budget $35.0M
Gross minus budget $36.1M
ROI 2.03x

Domestic gross

$34.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$37.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$14.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Ghost Ship 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 #2,650 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2002 releases #65 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2002. Studio / company #27 Village Roadshow Pictures of 36 titles Position inside the mapped Village Roadshow Pictures movie set. Primary genre #237 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 Ghost Ship (2002) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Ghost Ship (2002) earned a reported $71.1M worldwide against a reported $35.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $36.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.03x. In this database it currently ranks #2,650 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #65 among 2002 releases.

Worldwide gross
$71,142,361
Budget
$35,000,000
Gross minus budget
$36,142,361
ROI
2.03x
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

After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 25, 2002
Production
Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, Dark Castle Entertainment
Countries
AU, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyVillage Roadshow Pictures Release year chart2002 box office Genre chartHorror Genre chartMystery Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2002, Ghost Ship is positioned in this dataset as a Horror, Mystery, Thriller title from Village Roadshow Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $71.1M, reported production budget is $35.0M, gross-minus-budget is $36.1M, ROI is 2.03x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,650 all-time in the current chart set and #65 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.