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#3,979 All-time worldwide
#38 1991 releases

Movie profile

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

1991 · 93 min · Nelson Entertainment

Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $38.0M
Budget $20.0M
Gross minus budget $18.0M
ROI 1.90x

Domestic gross

$15.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$22.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey 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 #3,979 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1991 releases #38 Release-year chart position of 231 titles Ranked against movies released in 1991. Studio / company #1 Nelson Entertainment of 4 titles Position inside the mapped Nelson Entertainment movie set. Franchise #2 Bill & Ted of 3 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #1,040 Adventure of 2,138 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.

#3,976 The Banger Sisters 2002 · $38.1M #3,977 The Producers 2005 · $38.1M #3,978 Viva La Vida 2024 · $38.1M #3,980 Overcomer 2019 · $38.0M #3,981 Dead Again 1991 · $38.0M #3,982 Howard the Duck 1986 · $38.0M

Quick answer

How did Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) earned a reported $38.0M worldwide against a reported $20.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $18.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.90x. In this database it currently ranks #3,979 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #38 among 1991 releases.

Worldwide gross
$38,040,268
Budget
$20,000,000
Gross minus budget
$18,040,268
ROI
1.90x
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

Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 19, 1991
Production
Nelson Entertainment, Interscope Communications
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyNelson Entertainment FranchiseBill & Ted Release year chart1991 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartComedy Genre chartScience Fiction

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1991, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction title from Nelson Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $38.0M, reported production budget is $20.0M, gross-minus-budget is $18.0M, ROI is 1.90x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,979 all-time in the current chart set and #38 among 1991 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.