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#9,629 All-time worldwide
#65 1978 releases

Movie profile

Days of Heaven

1978 · 94 min · Paramount Pictures

Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $3.7M
Budget $3.0M
Gross minus budget $700,000
ROI 1.23x

Domestic gross

$1.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$333,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Days of Heaven 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 #9,629 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1978 releases #65 Release-year chart position of 89 titles Ranked against movies released in 1978. Studio / company #355 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #4,163 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 Days of Heaven (1978) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Days of Heaven (1978) earned a reported $3.7M worldwide against a reported $3.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $700.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.23x. In this database it currently ranks #9,629 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #65 among 1978 releases.

Worldwide gross
$3,700,000
Budget
$3,000,000
Gross minus budget
$700,000
ROI
1.23x
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

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 13, 1978
Production
Paramount Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1978 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartRomance

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1978, Days of Heaven is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Romance title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $3.7M, reported production budget is $3.0M, gross-minus-budget is $700,000, ROI is 1.23x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,629 all-time in the current chart set and #65 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.