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#8,490 All-time worldwide
#183 2002 releases

Movie profile

Killing Me Softly

2002 · 100 min · Noelle Entertainment Limited

Thriller Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $7.8M
Budget $25.0M
Gross minus budget -$17.2M
ROI 0.31x

Domestic gross

$3.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$870,815

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Killing Me Softly 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 #8,490 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2002 releases #183 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2002. Primary genre #1,900 Thriller of 2,567 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 Killing Me Softly (2002) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Killing Me Softly (2002) earned a reported $7.8M worldwide against a reported $25.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$17.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.31x. In this database it currently ranks #8,490 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #183 among 2002 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,775,138
Budget
$25,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$17,224,862
ROI
0.31x
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 woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 10, 2002
Production
Noelle Entertainment Limited, The Montecito Picture Company
Countries
GB, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyNoelle Entertainment Limited Release year chart2002 box office Genre chartThriller Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2002, Killing Me Softly is positioned in this dataset as a Thriller, Crime title from Noelle Entertainment Limited. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $7.8M, reported production budget is $25.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$17.2M, ROI is 0.31x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,490 all-time in the current chart set and #183 among 2002 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.