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#3,821 All-time worldwide
#37 1989 releases

Movie profile

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

1989 · 90 min · Deg

Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $40.5M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget $30.5M
ROI 4.05x

Domestic gross

$16.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$24.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 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 #3,821 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #37 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Studio / company #1 Deg of 15 titles Position inside the mapped Deg movie set. Franchise #1 Bill & Ted of 3 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #1,013 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.

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Quick answer

How did Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) earned a reported $40.5M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $30.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 4.05x. In this database it currently ranks #3,821 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #37 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$40,510,984
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
$30,510,984
ROI
4.05x
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

Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 17, 1989
Production
DEG, Nelson Entertainment, Interscope Communications
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyDeg FranchiseBill & Ted Release year chart1989 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartComedy Genre chartScience Fiction

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction title from DEG. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $40.5M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is $30.5M, ROI is 4.05x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,821 all-time in the current chart set and #37 among 1989 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.