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#7,551 All-time worldwide
#56 1980 releases

Movie profile

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

1980 · 108 min · Playboy Enterprises

Comedy Horror Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.7M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$5.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu 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 #7,551 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1980 releases #56 Release-year chart position of 126 titles Ranked against movies released in 1980. Primary genre #2,939 Comedy of 4,840 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 Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980) perform at the box office?

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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $10.7M. In this database it currently ranks #7,551 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #56 among 1980 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,700,000
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

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 8, 1980
Production
Playboy Enterprises, Orion Pictures, Braun Entertainment Group
Countries
GB, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyPlayboy Enterprises Release year chart1980 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartHorror Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1980, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Horror, Crime title from Playboy Enterprises. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.7M. For comparison, it currently sits #7,551 all-time in the current chart set and #56 among 1980 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.