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#8,403 All-time worldwide
#35 1975 releases

Movie profile

Death Race 2000

1975 · 80 min · New World Pictures

Action Science Fiction Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.0M
Budget $300,000
Gross minus budget $7.7M
ROI 26.67x

Domestic gross

$3.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$896,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Death Race 2000 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 #8,403 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1975 releases #35 Release-year chart position of 67 titles Ranked against movies released in 1975. Studio / company #9 New World Pictures of 27 titles Position inside the mapped New World Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,302 Action of 2,939 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 Death Race 2000 (1975) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Death Race 2000 (1975) earned a reported $8.0M worldwide against a reported $300.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 26.67x. In this database it currently ranks #8,403 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #35 among 1975 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,000,000
Budget
$300,000
Gross minus budget
$7,700,000
ROI
26.67x
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 a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 30, 1975
Production
New World Pictures
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1975, Death Race 2000 is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Science Fiction, Comedy title from New World Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.0M, reported production budget is $300,000, gross-minus-budget is $7.7M, ROI is 26.67x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,403 all-time in the current chart set and #35 among 1975 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.