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#3,891 All-time worldwide
#40 1990 releases

Movie profile

Joe Versus the Volcano

1990 · 102 min · Amblin Entertainment

Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $39.4M
Budget $25.0M
Gross minus budget $14.4M
ROI 1.58x

Domestic gross

$15.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$23.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Joe Versus the Volcano 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 #3,891 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #40 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Studio / company #27 Amblin Entertainment of 33 titles Position inside the mapped Amblin Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #1,471 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.

#3,888 Halloween II 2009 · $39.4M #3,889 Bring Her Back 2025 · $39.4M #3,890 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For 2014 · $39.4M #3,893 Shaun of the Dead 2004 · $39.4M #3,894 Becoming Jane 2007 · $39.4M #3,895 Dead Man Walking 1995 · $39.4M

Quick answer

How did Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) earned a reported $39.4M worldwide against a reported $25.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $14.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.58x. In this database it currently ranks #3,891 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #40 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$39,400,000
Budget
$25,000,000
Gross minus budget
$14,400,000
ROI
1.58x
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

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 9, 1990
Production
Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyAmblin Entertainment Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartRomance

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, Joe Versus the Volcano is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance title from Amblin Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $39.4M, reported production budget is $25.0M, gross-minus-budget is $14.4M, ROI is 1.58x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,891 all-time in the current chart set and #40 among 1990 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.