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#5,480 All-time worldwide
#157 2019 releases

Movie profile

Shaft

2019 · 111 min · Davis Entertainment

Action Crime Comedy Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $21.4M
Budget $30.0M
Gross minus budget -$8.6M
ROI 0.71x

Domestic gross

$8.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Shaft 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 #5,480 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2019 releases #157 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2019. Studio / company #16 Davis Entertainment of 21 titles Position inside the mapped Davis Entertainment movie set. Franchise #2 Shaft (Reboot) of 2 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #1,658 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 Shaft (2019) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Shaft (2019) earned a reported $21.4M worldwide against a reported $30.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$8.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.71x. In this database it currently ranks #5,480 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #157 among 2019 releases.

Worldwide gross
$21,360,215
Budget
$30,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$8,639,785
ROI
0.71x
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

JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 14, 2019
Production
Davis Entertainment, New Line Cinema
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyDavis Entertainment FranchiseShaft (Reboot) Release year chart2019 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartCrime Genre chartComedy Genre chartMystery

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2019, Shaft is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Crime, Comedy title from Davis Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $21.4M, reported production budget is $30.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$8.6M, ROI is 0.71x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,480 all-time in the current chart set and #157 among 2019 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.