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#4,260 All-time worldwide
#78 1999 releases

Movie profile

Instinct

1999 · 124 min · Spyglass Entertainment

Drama Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $34.1M
Budget $80.0M
Gross minus budget -$45.9M
ROI 0.43x

Domestic gross

$17.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$17.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where 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 #4,260 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #78 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Studio / company #7 Spyglass Entertainment of 11 titles Position inside the mapped Spyglass Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #1,601 Drama of 5,859 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 Instinct (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Instinct (1999) earned a reported $34.1M worldwide against a reported $80.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$45.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.43x. In this database it currently ranks #4,260 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #78 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$34,105,207
Budget
$80,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$45,894,793
ROI
0.43x
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

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 4, 1999
Production
Spyglass Entertainment, Touchstone Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companySpyglass Entertainment Release year chart1999 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, Instinct is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Thriller title from Spyglass Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $34.1M, reported production budget is $80.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$45.9M, ROI is 0.43x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,260 all-time in the current chart set and #78 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.