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#7,760 All-time worldwide
#231 2009 releases

Movie profile

Private Eye

2009 · 111 min · Cj Entertainment

Mystery Crime Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.0M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$4.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Private Eye 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 #7,760 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #231 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #16 Cj Entertainment of 17 titles Position inside the mapped Cj Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #648 Mystery of 951 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 Private Eye (2009) perform at the box office?

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Private Eye (2009) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $10.0M. In this database it currently ranks #7,760 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #231 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,000,000
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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 story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a government official. Being scared of being accused, he decides to hire Hong Jin-ho (a detective) to help him find the murderer before the police accuse him of the murder.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 16, 2009
Production
CJ Entertainment, Stone Comics Entertainment
Countries
KR

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyCj Entertainment Release year chart2009 box office Genre chartMystery Genre chartCrime Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, Private Eye is positioned in this dataset as a Mystery, Crime, Thriller title from CJ Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.0M. For comparison, it currently sits #7,760 all-time in the current chart set and #231 among 2009 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.