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#3,805 All-time worldwide
#119 2008 releases

Movie profile

The Love Guru

2008 · 87 min · Paramount Pictures

Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $40.9M
Budget $62.0M
Gross minus budget -$21.1M
ROI 0.66x

Domestic gross

$16.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$24.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Love Guru 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 #3,805 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2008 releases #119 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2008. Studio / company #187 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,441 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 Love Guru (2008) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Love Guru (2008) earned a reported $40.9M worldwide against a reported $62.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$21.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.66x. In this database it currently ranks #3,805 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #119 among 2008 releases.

Worldwide gross
$40,854,735
Budget
$62,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$21,145,265
ROI
0.66x
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

Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skills are put to the test when he must get a brokenhearted hockey player's marriage back on track in time for the man to help his team win the Stanley Cup.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 20, 2008
Production
Paramount Pictures, Internationale Filmproduktion Poseidon, LSG Productions
Countries
DE, US, GB

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart2008 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartRomance

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2008, The Love Guru is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $40.9M, reported production budget is $62.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$21.1M, ROI is 0.66x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,805 all-time in the current chart set and #119 among 2008 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.