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#6,247 All-time worldwide
#182 2012 releases

Movie profile

The Concubine

2012 · 122 min · Lotte Entertainment

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $16.5M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$8.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$8.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Concubine 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 #6,247 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2012 releases #182 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2012. Studio / company #7 Lotte Entertainment of 14 titles Position inside the mapped Lotte Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #2,548 Drama of 5,859 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 The Concubine (2012) perform at the box office?

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The Concubine (2012) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $16.5M. In this database it currently ranks #6,247 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #182 among 2012 releases.

Worldwide gross
$16,465,764
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

Living a torturous life of poverty and barely able to survive, Hwa-yeon decides to offer herself as one of the king’s concubines. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately seized by the woman - the Grand Prince Seong-won, a megalomaniacal ruler drunk with power and lust, and Kwon-yoo, who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-yeon is exposed.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 6, 2012
Production
Lotte Entertainment, HwangKiSung Films, My Way Film Company
Countries
KR

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2012, The Concubine is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Lotte Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $16.5M. For comparison, it currently sits #6,247 all-time in the current chart set and #182 among 2012 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.