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#6,354 All-time worldwide
#111 1998 releases

Movie profile

Dance with Me

1998 · 126 min · Mandalay Entertainment

Drama Music Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.9M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$8.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$8.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Dance with Me 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 #6,354 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1998 releases #111 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1998. Studio / company #6 Mandalay Entertainment of 9 titles Position inside the mapped Mandalay Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #2,599 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 Dance with Me (1998) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Dance with Me (1998) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $15.9M. In this database it currently ranks #6,354 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #111 among 1998 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,923,122
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

Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 21, 1998
Production
Mandalay Entertainment
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyMandalay Entertainment Release year chart1998 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartMusic Genre chartRomance

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1998, Dance with Me is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Music, Romance title from Mandalay Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.9M. For comparison, it currently sits #6,354 all-time in the current chart set and #111 among 1998 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.