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#11,705 All-time worldwide
#226 1999 releases

Movie profile

8 ½ Women

1999 · 121 min · Delux Productions

Drama Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $437,568
Budget $6.0M
Gross minus budget -$5.6M
ROI 0.07x

Domestic gross

$218,784

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$218,784

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$39,381

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where 8 ½ Women 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 #11,705 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #226 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Primary genre #5,238 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did 8 ½ Women (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

8 ½ Women (1999) earned a reported $437.6K worldwide against a reported $6.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$5.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.07x. In this database it currently ranks #11,705 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #226 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$437,568
Budget
$6,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$5,562,432
ROI
0.07x
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

After his wife dies, middle-aged businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight-and-a-half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. As a year passes, the women begin asserting their own power.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 22, 1999
Production
Delux Productions, Kasander & Wigman Productions, Continent Film GmbH
Countries
DE, GB, LU, NL

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, 8 ½ Women is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy title from Delux Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $437,568, reported production budget is $6.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$5.6M, ROI is 0.07x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,705 all-time in the current chart set and #226 among 1999 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.