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#6,418 All-time worldwide
#39 1978 releases

Movie profile

Corvette Summer

1978 · 105 min · Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Adventure Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.5M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$6.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Corvette Summer 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 #6,418 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1978 releases #39 Release-year chart position of 89 titles Ranked against movies released in 1978. Studio / company #58 Metro Goldwyn Mayer of 281 titles Position inside the mapped Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie set. Primary genre #1,436 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.

#6,415 The Water Diviner 2014 · $15.5M #6,416 The Immature: The Trip 2012 · $15.5M #6,417 Legend 1985 · $15.5M #6,422 Ki & Ka 2016 · $15.5M #6,423 The Conspirator 2011 · $15.5M #6,424 Mad Love 1995 · $15.5M

Quick answer

How did Corvette Summer (1978) perform at the box office?

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Corvette Summer (1978) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $15.5M. In this database it currently ranks #6,418 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #39 among 1978 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,500,000
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 2, 1978
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cinema International Corporation (CIC)
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyMetro Goldwyn Mayer Release year chart1978 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1978, Corvette Summer is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Comedy title from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.5M. For comparison, it currently sits #6,418 all-time in the current chart set and #39 among 1978 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.