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#6,538 All-time worldwide
#194 2007 releases

Movie profile

Going by the Book

2007 · 102 min · Film It Suda

Comedy Action Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.0M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$6.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Going by the Book 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 #6,538 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2007 releases #194 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2007. Studio / company #2 Film It Suda of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Film It Suda movie set. Primary genre #2,539 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did Going by the Book (2007) perform at the box office?

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Going by the Book (2007) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $15.0M. In this database it currently ranks #6,538 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #194 among 2007 releases.

Worldwide gross
$14,961,069
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

The chief of Sampo City Police Office, Seung-u, organizes a simulation of a bank robbery, but a by-the-book cop gets too caught up in the role playing in which the simulation doesn't go the way he had anticipated.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 18, 2007
Production
Film It Suda, Barunson E&A, Sio Film
Countries
KR

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Studio / production companyFilm It Suda Release year chart2007 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartAction Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2007, Going by the Book is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Action, Crime title from Film It Suda. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.0M. For comparison, it currently sits #6,538 all-time in the current chart set and #194 among 2007 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.