Editing Quo Vadis (1951 film) (section)

===Box-office performance===
[[File:Quovadis-sept1953-movieposter-jpnmag.jpg|thumb|right|The 1953 Japanese theatrical release poster]]

The film was a major commercial success. It was [[List of 1951 box office number-one films in the United States|number one at the US box office]] for 6 consecutive weeks<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=National Boxoffice Survey|date=9 January 1952|page=3|url=https://archive.org/details/variety185-1952-01/page/n296/mode/1up|access-date=25 February 2023|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> and 11 weeks in total. According to MGM's records, during its initial theatrical release, it earned $11,143,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $9,894,000 elsewhere, making it the highest-grossing film of 1951, and resulting in a profit to the studio of $5,440,000.