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#6,846 All-time worldwide
#172 2005 releases

Movie profile

Lords of Dogtown

2005 · 107 min · Columbia Pictures

Drama Action
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $13.4M
Budget $25.0M
Gross minus budget -$11.6M
ROI 0.54x

Domestic gross

$6.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Lords of Dogtown 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 #6,846 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2005 releases #172 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2005. Studio / company #206 Columbia Pictures of 272 titles Position inside the mapped Columbia Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,823 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.

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Quick answer

How did Lords of Dogtown (2005) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Lords of Dogtown (2005) earned a reported $13.4M worldwide against a reported $25.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$11.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.54x. In this database it currently ranks #6,846 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #172 among 2005 releases.

Worldwide gross
$13,411,957
Budget
$25,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$11,588,043
ROI
0.54x
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 radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 3, 2005
Production
Columbia Pictures, Linson Entertainment, Indelible Pictures
Countries
DE, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2005, Lords of Dogtown is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Action title from Columbia Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $13.4M, reported production budget is $25.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$11.6M, ROI is 0.54x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,846 all-time in the current chart set and #172 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.