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#8,208 All-time worldwide
#238 2008 releases

Movie profile

Kidnap

2008 · 165 min · Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd.

Action Crime Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.8M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget -$1.3M
ROI 0.88x

Domestic gross

$3.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$980,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Kidnap 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 #8,208 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2008 releases #238 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2008. Primary genre #2,260 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.

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Quick answer

How did Kidnap (2008) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Kidnap (2008) earned a reported $8.8M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$1.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.88x. In this database it currently ranks #8,208 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #238 among 2008 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,750,000
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$1,250,000
ROI
0.88x
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 fortnight before her eighteenth birthday, Sonia goes missing. Her family receives a call informing them that she has been kidnapped and her estranged father, a US-based businessman, must now follow the kidnapper’s instructions to the letter if he is to entertain any hopes of seeing her alive again. Is this a mere kidnapping or is there more to it than what meets the eye?

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 2, 2008
Production
Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd, Warner China Film HG Corporation 中影华纳横店
Countries
IN

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Studio / production companyShree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd. Release year chart2008 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartCrime Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2008, Kidnap is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Crime, Thriller title from Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.8M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$1.3M, ROI is 0.88x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,208 all-time in the current chart set and #238 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.