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#2,700 All-time worldwide
#86 2019 releases

Movie profile

Playing with Fire

2019 · 96 min · Broken Road Productions

Family Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $69.4M
Budget $29.9M
Gross minus budget $39.5M
ROI 2.32x

Domestic gross

$29.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$39.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$9.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Playing with Fire 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 #2,700 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2019 releases #86 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2019. Studio / company #5 Broken Road Productions of 7 titles Position inside the mapped Broken Road Productions movie set. Primary genre #471 Family of 1,380 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.

#2,697 After 2019 · $69.5M #2,698 The Running Man 2025 · $69.5M #2,699 Because I Said So 2007 · $69.5M #2,701 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 2016 · $69.4M #2,702 The Last Exorcism 2010 · $69.4M #2,703 The X Files: I Want to Believe 2008 · $69.4M

Quick answer

How did Playing with Fire (2019) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Playing with Fire (2019) earned a reported $69.4M worldwide against a reported $29.9M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $39.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.32x. In this database it currently ranks #2,700 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #86 among 2019 releases.

Worldwide gross
$69,412,425
Budget
$29,900,000
Gross minus budget
$39,512,425
ROI
2.32x
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 crew of rugged firefighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 8, 2019
Production
Broken Road Productions, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyBroken Road Productions Release year chart2019 box office Genre chartFamily Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2019, Playing with Fire is positioned in this dataset as a Family, Comedy title from Broken Road Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $69.4M, reported production budget is $29.9M, gross-minus-budget is $39.5M, ROI is 2.32x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,700 all-time in the current chart set and #86 among 2019 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.