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#4,884 All-time worldwide
#147 2006 releases

Movie profile

The Painted Veil

2006 · 125 min · Emotion Pictures

Romance Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $26.9M
Budget $19.4M
Gross minus budget $7.5M
ROI 1.39x

Domestic gross

$13.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$13.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Painted Veil ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #4,884 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2006 releases #147 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2006. Primary genre #843 Romance of 2,607 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.

#4,881 Spy Hard 1996 · $27.0M #4,882 The Baader Meinhof Complex 2008 · $26.9M #4,883 Letters to Santa 2011 · $26.9M #4,885 Like a Boss 2020 · $26.9M #4,886 Eye for an Eye 1996 · $26.9M #4,887 Paulie 1998 · $26.9M

Quick answer

How did The Painted Veil (2006) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Painted Veil (2006) earned a reported $26.9M worldwide against a reported $19.4M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.39x. In this database it currently ranks #4,884 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #147 among 2006 releases.

Worldwide gross
$26,910,847
Budget
$19,400,000
Gross minus budget
$7,510,847
ROI
1.39x
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

A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 9, 2006
Production
Emotion Pictures, The Mark Gordon Company, Class 5 Films
Countries
CA, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyEmotion Pictures Release year chart2006 box office Genre chartRomance Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2006, The Painted Veil is positioned in this dataset as a Romance, Drama title from Emotion Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $26.9M, reported production budget is $19.4M, gross-minus-budget is $7.5M, ROI is 1.39x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,884 all-time in the current chart set and #147 among 2006 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.