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#9,024 All-time worldwide
#143 1996 releases

Movie profile

Get on the Bus

1996 · 122 min · Columbia Pictures

History Adventure Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $5.7M
Budget $2.4M
Gross minus budget $3.3M
ROI 2.37x

Domestic gross

$2.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$512,267

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Get on the Bus 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 #9,024 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1996 releases #143 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1996. Studio / company #230 Columbia Pictures of 272 titles Position inside the mapped Columbia Pictures movie set. Primary genre #508 History of 700 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.

#9,020 Personal Best 1982 · $5.7M #9,020 Simhadri 2003 · $5.7M #9,020 Incantation 2022 · $5.7M #9,025 Kundun 1997 · $5.7M #9,026 Hear No Evil 1993 · $5.7M #9,027 MegaForce 1982 · $5.7M

Quick answer

How did Get on the Bus (1996) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Get on the Bus (1996) earned a reported $5.7M worldwide against a reported $2.4M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $3.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.37x. In this database it currently ranks #9,024 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #143 among 1996 releases.

Worldwide gross
$5,691,854
Budget
$2,400,000
Gross minus budget
$3,291,854
ROI
2.37x
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

Fifteen Black men gather in South Central LA to take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in October 1995. Among the attendees are an eclectic set of characters, including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a Black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the March, including manhood, religion, politics, sexuality, and race.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 16, 1996
Production
Columbia Pictures, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyColumbia Pictures Release year chart1996 box office Genre chartHistory Genre chartAdventure Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1996, Get on the Bus is positioned in this dataset as a History, Adventure, Drama title from Columbia Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $5.7M, reported production budget is $2.4M, gross-minus-budget is $3.3M, ROI is 2.37x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,024 all-time in the current chart set and #143 among 1996 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.