Editing Ali (film) (section)

=== Box office ===
''Ali'' opened on December 25, 2001, and grossed a total of $14.7 million in 2,446 theaters during its opening weekend. The film went on to gross a total of $87.7 million worldwide.<ref name=BOM/>

Due to its high production and marketing costs, the film ended up losing Columbia Pictures as much as $100 million.<ref name=InsiderLosses>{{cite web|title= 20 films no one expected to lose money at the box office |url= https://www.insider.com/surprising-box-office-flops-throughout-history-2020-6 |website=[[Insider Inc.]]|author=Zoë Ettinger |date=June 15, 2020|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> The film's failure was partly due to its competition with ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}