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#4,265 All-time worldwide
#111 2003 releases

Movie profile

Malibu's Most Wanted

2003 · 86 min · Karz Entertainment

Comedy Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $34.0M
Budget $15.0M
Gross minus budget $19.0M
ROI 2.27x

Domestic gross

$13.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$20.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Malibu's Most Wanted 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 #4,265 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2003 releases #111 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2003. Studio / company #2 Karz Entertainment of 3 titles Position inside the mapped Karz Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #1,617 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.

#4,261 Endless Love 2014 · $34.1M #4,263 Miracles: The Canton Godfather 1989 · $34.0M #4,264 Death Wish 2018 · $34.0M #4,274 Darkness 2002 · $34.0M #4,275 The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 · $34.0M #4,276 The Relic 1997 · $34.0M

Quick answer

How did Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) earned a reported $34.0M worldwide against a reported $15.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $19.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.27x. In this database it currently ranks #4,265 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #111 among 2003 releases.

Worldwide gross
$34,000,000
Budget
$15,000,000
Gross minus budget
$19,000,000
ROI
2.27x
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 senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 10, 2003
Production
Karz Entertainment, Lonely Film Productions
Countries
US, DE

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyKarz Entertainment Release year chart2003 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2003, Malibu's Most Wanted is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime title from Karz Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $34.0M, reported production budget is $15.0M, gross-minus-budget is $19.0M, ROI is 2.27x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,265 all-time in the current chart set and #111 among 2003 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.