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#9,790 All-time worldwide
#212 2001 releases

Movie profile

Pootie Tang

2001 · 81 min · Mtv Films

Action Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $3.3M
Budget $7.0M
Gross minus budget -$3.7M
ROI 0.47x

Domestic gross

$1.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$369,600

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Pootie Tang 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 #9,790 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2001 releases #212 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2001. Studio / company #8 Mtv Films of 8 titles Position inside the mapped Mtv Films movie set. Primary genre #2,562 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.

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Quick answer

How did Pootie Tang (2001) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Pootie Tang (2001) earned a reported $3.3M worldwide against a reported $7.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$3.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.47x. In this database it currently ranks #9,790 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #212 among 2001 releases.

Worldwide gross
$3,300,000
Budget
$7,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$3,700,000
ROI
0.47x
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

Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people. Pootie must learn to find himself and defeat the evil corporation for all the young Black children of America, supatime.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 29, 2001
Production
MTV Films, Paramount Pictures, Alphaville Films
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyMtv Films Release year chart2001 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2001, Pootie Tang is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Comedy title from MTV Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $3.3M, reported production budget is $7.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$3.7M, ROI is 0.47x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,790 all-time in the current chart set and #212 among 2001 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.