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#4,861 All-time worldwide
#148 2008 releases

Movie profile

Ghost Town

2008 · 102 min · Spyglass Entertainment

Comedy Romance Drama Fantasy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $27.1M
Budget $20.0M
Gross minus budget $7.1M
ROI 1.36x

Domestic gross

$13.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$13.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Ghost Town 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 #4,861 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2008 releases #148 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2008. Studio / company #9 Spyglass Entertainment of 11 titles Position inside the mapped Spyglass Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #1,873 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.

#4,858 The Jazz Singer 1980 · $27.1M #4,859 Stay Alive 2006 · $27.1M #4,860 All Dogs Go to Heaven 1989 · $27.1M #4,865 Guarding Tess 1994 · $27.1M #4,866 The Musketeer 2001 · $27.1M #4,867 Spyder 2017 · $27.1M

Quick answer

How did Ghost Town (2008) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Ghost Town (2008) earned a reported $27.1M worldwide against a reported $20.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.36x. In this database it currently ranks #4,861 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #148 among 2008 releases.

Worldwide gross
$27,100,000
Budget
$20,000,000
Gross minus budget
$7,100,000
ROI
1.36x
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

Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 19, 2008
Production
Spyglass Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures, Pariah
Countries
US

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Studio / production companySpyglass Entertainment Release year chart2008 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartRomance Genre chartDrama Genre chartFantasy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2008, Ghost Town is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance, Drama title from Spyglass Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $27.1M, reported production budget is $20.0M, gross-minus-budget is $7.1M, ROI is 1.36x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,861 all-time in the current chart set and #148 among 2008 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.