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#8,468 All-time worldwide
#128 1993 releases

Movie profile

Fatal Instinct

1993 · 90 min · Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Comedy Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $7.8M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget -$2.2M
ROI 0.78x

Domestic gross

$3.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$878,005

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Fatal Instinct 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 #8,468 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1993 releases #128 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1993. Studio / company #88 Metro Goldwyn Mayer of 281 titles Position inside the mapped Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie set. Primary genre #3,299 Comedy of 4,840 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 Fatal Instinct (1993) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Fatal Instinct (1993) earned a reported $7.8M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$2.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.78x. In this database it currently ranks #8,468 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #128 among 1993 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,839,327
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$2,160,673
ROI
0.78x
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

Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He crosses paths with seductive Lola Cain during an assignment and promptly begins an affair with her. Meanwhile, Ned's wife, Lana, is deep in an affair of her own. Lana and her lover are planning to murder Ned in an elaborate fashion so they can collect on his triple indemnity life insurance policy.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 29, 1993
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyMetro Goldwyn Mayer Release year chart1993 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1993, Fatal Instinct is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime title from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $7.8M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$2.2M, ROI is 0.78x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,468 all-time in the current chart set and #128 among 1993 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.