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#6,184 All-time worldwide
#172 2019 releases

Movie profile

Shanghai Fortress

2019 · 107 min · H.s.m. Entertainment

Science Fiction War
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $16.9M
Budget $30.0M
Gross minus budget -$13.1M
ROI 0.56x

Domestic gross

$6.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$10.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Shanghai Fortress 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 #6,184 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2019 releases #172 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2019. Primary genre #765 Science Fiction of 1,234 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.

#6,181 The One and Only 1978 · $16.9M #6,182 Krull 1983 · $16.9M #6,183 Decision to Leave 2022 · $16.9M #6,188 Zapped! 1982 · $16.9M #6,189 They Call Me Bruce? 1982 · $16.9M #6,190 Life or Something Like It 2002 · $16.9M

Quick answer

How did Shanghai Fortress (2019) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Shanghai Fortress (2019) earned a reported $16.9M worldwide against a reported $30.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$13.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.56x. In this database it currently ranks #6,184 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #172 among 2019 releases.

Worldwide gross
$16,900,000
Budget
$30,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$13,100,000
ROI
0.56x
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

Set in the future, the city of Shanghai battle to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that has attacked and laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in it's quest to harvest a hidden energy only found on earth.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 9, 2019
Production
H.S.M. Entertainment
Countries
CN

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2019, Shanghai Fortress is positioned in this dataset as a Science Fiction, War title from H.S.M. Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $16.9M, reported production budget is $30.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$13.1M, ROI is 0.56x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,184 all-time in the current chart set and #172 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.