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#7,178 All-time worldwide
#124 1999 releases

Movie profile

In Dreams

1999 · 100 min · Dream Works Pictures

Mystery Thriller Horror
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $12.0M
Budget $30.0M
Gross minus budget -$18.0M
ROI 0.40x

Domestic gross

$5.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where In 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 #7,178 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #124 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Studio / company #53 Dream Works Pictures of 55 titles Position inside the mapped Dream Works Pictures movie set. Primary genre #593 Mystery of 951 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 In Dreams (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

In Dreams (1999) earned a reported $12.0M worldwide against a reported $30.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$18.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.40x. In this database it currently ranks #7,178 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #124 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$12,017,369
Budget
$30,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$17,982,631
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

A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 15, 1999
Production
DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Company of Wolves
Countries
IE, GB, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyDream Works Pictures Release year chart1999 box office Genre chartMystery Genre chartThriller Genre chartHorror

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, In Dreams is positioned in this dataset as a Mystery, Thriller, Horror title from DreamWorks Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $12.0M, reported production budget is $30.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$18.0M, ROI is 0.40x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,178 all-time in the current chart set and #124 among 1999 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.