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#11,154 All-time worldwide
#140 1985 releases

Movie profile

DEFCON-4

1985 · 88 min · Salter Street Films

Science Fiction Thriller Action
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.1M
Budget $1.8M
Gross minus budget -$742,936
ROI 0.59x

Domestic gross

$422,826

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$634,238

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$118,391

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where DEFCON-4 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 #11,154 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1985 releases #140 Release-year chart position of 184 titles Ranked against movies released in 1985. Primary genre #1,143 Science Fiction of 1,234 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 DEFCON-4 (1985) perform at the box office?

High confidence

DEFCON-4 (1985) earned a reported $1.1M worldwide against a reported $1.8M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$742.9K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.59x. In this database it currently ranks #11,154 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #140 among 1985 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,057,064
Budget
$1,800,000
Gross minus budget
-$742,936
ROI
0.59x
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

Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 15, 1985
Production
Salter Street Films, New World Pictures
Countries
CA

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1985, DEFCON-4 is positioned in this dataset as a Science Fiction, Thriller, Action title from Salter Street Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.1M, reported production budget is $1.8M, gross-minus-budget is -$742,936, ROI is 0.59x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,154 all-time in the current chart set and #140 among 1985 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.