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#7,848 All-time worldwide
#200 2005 releases

Movie profile

Kinky Boots

2005 · 107 min · Miramax

Comedy Drama Music
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.0M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget -$49,867
ROI 1.00x

Domestic gross

$5.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$895,512

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Kinky Boots 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 #7,848 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2005 releases #200 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2005. Studio / company #50 Miramax of 77 titles Position inside the mapped Miramax movie set. Primary genre #3,053 Comedy of 4,840 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.

#7,845 U2: 360° at the Rose Bowl 2010 · $10.0M #7,846 Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare 2016 · $10.0M #7,847 Brazil 1985 · $10.0M #7,849 Our Shining Days 2017 · $9.9M #7,850 Murphy's Law 1986 · $9.9M #7,851 Corpus Christi 2019 · $9.9M

Quick answer

How did Kinky Boots (2005) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Kinky Boots (2005) earned a reported $10.0M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$49.9K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.00x. In this database it currently ranks #7,848 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #200 among 2005 releases.

Worldwide gross
$9,950,133
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$49,867
ROI
1.00x
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

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 30, 2005
Production
Miramax, Harbour Pictures
Countries
GB, US

Related indexes

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2005, Kinky Boots is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama, Music title from Miramax. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.0M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$49,867, ROI is 1.00x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,848 all-time in the current chart set and #200 among 2005 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.