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#9,983 All-time worldwide
#180 1999 releases

Movie profile

Cradle Will Rock

1999 · 132 min · Touchstone Pictures

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.9M
Budget $36.0M
Gross minus budget -$33.1M
ROI 0.08x

Domestic gross

$1.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$261,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Cradle Will Rock 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 #9,983 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #180 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Studio / company #110 Touchstone Pictures of 113 titles Position inside the mapped Touchstone Pictures movie set. Primary genre #4,331 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 Cradle Will Rock (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Cradle Will Rock (1999) earned a reported $2.9M worldwide against a reported $36.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$33.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.08x. In this database it currently ranks #9,983 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #180 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,900,000
Budget
$36,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$33,100,000
ROI
0.08x
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

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 10, 1999
Production
Touchstone Pictures
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, Cradle Will Rock is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Touchstone Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.9M, reported production budget is $36.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$33.1M, ROI is 0.08x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,983 all-time in the current chart set and #180 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.