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#9,110 All-time worldwide
#160 1999 releases

Movie profile

Black and White

1999 · 98 min · Bigel / Mailer Films

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $5.2M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget -$4.8M
ROI 0.52x

Domestic gross

$2.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$471,718

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Black and White 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 #9,110 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #160 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Primary genre #3,906 Drama of 5,859 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 Black and White (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Black and White (1999) earned a reported $5.2M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$4.8M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.52x. In this database it currently ranks #9,110 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #160 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$5,241,315
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$4,758,685
ROI
0.52x
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

Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 4, 1999
Production
Bigel / Mailer Films, Palm Pictures, Screen Gems
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyBigel / Mailer Films Release year chart1999 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, Black and White is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Bigel / Mailer Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $5.2M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$4.8M, ROI is 0.52x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,110 all-time in the current chart set and #160 among 1999 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.