Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
The financial picture
Domestic box office
$49,275,340
Worldwide box office
$93,413,709
Production budget
$15,000,000
Gross / budget
6.23×
USD · Domestic means US/Canada. Worldwide includes domestic; do not add them together. Gross is ticket revenue, not profit. A gross-to-budget multiple excludes marketing, exhibitor shares and other costs.
In the recorded snapshot, 52.7% of theatrical gross is domestic (US and Canada); 47.3% is international.
Domestic
$49,275,340
International
$44,138,369
International is worldwide minus domestic. Totals may be incomplete or cover different reporting periods; a source link is not independent verification. Revenue share is not a count of viewers or a measure of cultural impact.
Worldwide ticket revenue was 6.23 times the reported production budget.
Worldwide gross
$93,413,709
Production budget
$15,000,000
Not profit, ROI, or a break-even verdict. Marketing, theater shares, distribution costs and non-theatrical revenue are excluded.
Comparable films
Up to three films in the index sharing a genre and release model, with production budgets within 50% of this film’s budget. Closest budgets appear first, then closest release years. Nominal USD; not adjusted for inflation. These are financial peers, not a ranking or cultural-impact score.
