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#9,661 All-time worldwide
#162 1997 releases

Movie profile

Cats Don't Dance

1997 · 75 min · Turner Feature Animation

Animation Comedy Family Music
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $3.6M
Budget $32.0M
Gross minus budget -$28.4M
ROI 0.11x

Domestic gross

$1.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$464,400

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Cats Don't Dance 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 #9,661 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1997 releases #162 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 1997. Primary genre #827 Animation of 920 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 Cats Don't Dance (1997) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Cats Don't Dance (1997) earned a reported $3.6M worldwide against a reported $32.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$28.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.11x. In this database it currently ranks #9,661 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #162 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross
$3,600,000
Budget
$32,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$28,400,000
ROI
0.11x
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

An ambitious singing and dancing cat in 1939 Hollywood overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 26, 1997
Production
Turner Feature Animation, David Kirschner Productions
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyTurner Feature Animation Release year chart1997 box office Genre chartAnimation Genre chartComedy Genre chartFamily Genre chartMusic

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, Cats Don't Dance is positioned in this dataset as a Animation, Comedy, Family title from Turner Feature Animation. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $3.6M, reported production budget is $32.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$28.4M, ROI is 0.11x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,661 all-time in the current chart set and #162 among 1997 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.