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#7,240 All-time worldwide
#180 2004 releases

Movie profile

Layer Cake

2004 · 105 min · Marv

Drama Thriller Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $11.9M
Budget $6.5M
Gross minus budget $5.4M
ROI 1.83x

Domestic gross

$6.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Layer Cake 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 #7,240 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2004 releases #180 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2004. Studio / company #5 Marv of 6 titles Position inside the mapped Marv movie set. Primary genre #3,010 Drama of 5,859 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.

#7,237 Ring 0 2000 · $11.9M #7,238 My Neighbors the Yamadas 1999 · $11.9M #7,239 The King's Avatar: For the Glory 2019 · $11.9M #7,243 Making Love 1982 · $11.9M #7,244 Kanguva 2024 · $11.9M #7,245 In the House 2012 · $11.9M

Quick answer

How did Layer Cake (2004) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Layer Cake (2004) earned a reported $11.9M worldwide against a reported $6.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $5.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.83x. In this database it currently ranks #7,240 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #180 among 2004 releases.

Worldwide gross
$11,900,000
Budget
$6,500,000
Gross minus budget
$5,400,000
ROI
1.83x
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

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 30, 2004
Production
Marv
Countries
GB

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2004, Layer Cake is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Thriller, Crime title from Marv. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $11.9M, reported production budget is $6.5M, gross-minus-budget is $5.4M, ROI is 1.83x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,240 all-time in the current chart set and #180 among 2004 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.