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#5,659 All-time worldwide
#132 2003 releases

Movie profile

Ong-Bak

2003 · 105 min · Baa Ram Ewe

Action Crime Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $20.1M
Budget $1.1M
Gross minus budget $19.0M
ROI 18.28x

Domestic gross

$8.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Ong-Bak 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 #5,659 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2003 releases #132 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2003. Franchise #1 Ong Bak of 2 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #1,698 Action of 2,939 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.

#5,656 Champions 2018 · $20.1M #5,657 Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone 2007 · $20.1M #5,658 Heavy Metal 1981 · $20.1M #5,660 Tess 1979 · $20.1M #5,661 Corrina, Corrina 1994 · $20.1M #5,662 I ♥ Huckabees 2004 · $20.1M

Quick answer

How did Ong-Bak (2003) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Ong-Bak (2003) earned a reported $20.1M worldwide against a reported $1.1M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $19.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 18.28x. In this database it currently ranks #5,659 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #132 among 2003 releases.

Worldwide gross
$20,112,926
Budget
$1,100,000
Gross minus budget
$19,012,926
ROI
18.28x
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 the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 31, 2003
Production
Baa-Ram-Ewe, Sahamongkolfilm, EuropaCorp
Countries
TH, HK, FR

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyBaa Ram Ewe FranchiseOng Bak Release year chart2003 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartCrime Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2003, Ong-Bak is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Crime, Thriller title from Baa-Ram-Ewe. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $20.1M, reported production budget is $1.1M, gross-minus-budget is $19.0M, ROI is 18.28x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,659 all-time in the current chart set and #132 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.