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#10,347 All-time worldwide
#118 1984 releases

Movie profile

Electric Dreams

1984 · 96 min · Virgin Vision

Romance Science Fiction Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.2M
Budget $5.5M
Gross minus budget -$3.3M
ROI 0.40x

Domestic gross

$877,445

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$245,685

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Electric Dreams 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 #10,347 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1984 releases #118 Release-year chart position of 163 titles Ranked against movies released in 1984. Studio / company #1 Virgin Vision of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Virgin Vision movie set. Primary genre #2,055 Romance of 2,607 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 Electric Dreams (1984) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Electric Dreams (1984) earned a reported $2.2M worldwide against a reported $5.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$3.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.40x. In this database it currently ranks #10,347 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #118 among 1984 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,193,612
Budget
$5,500,000
Gross minus budget
-$3,306,388
ROI
0.40x
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

Miles Harding buys a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing conscious thought and emotion after an interaction with spilled champagne. Things begin getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with beautiful neighbor Madeline Robistat.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 20, 1984
Production
Virgin Vision
Countries
GB, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyVirgin Vision Release year chart1984 box office Genre chartRomance Genre chartScience Fiction Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1984, Electric Dreams is positioned in this dataset as a Romance, Science Fiction, Comedy title from Virgin Vision. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.2M, reported production budget is $5.5M, gross-minus-budget is -$3.3M, ROI is 0.40x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,347 all-time in the current chart set and #118 among 1984 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.