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#8,002 All-time worldwide
#204 2005 releases

Movie profile

Mad Hot Ballroom

2005 · 105 min · Nickelodeon Movies

Documentary Family
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $9.4M
Budget $500,000
Gross minus budget $8.9M
ROI 18.80x

Domestic gross

$4.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Mad Hot Ballroom 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 #8,002 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2005 releases #204 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2005. Studio / company #9 Nickelodeon Movies of 9 titles Position inside the mapped Nickelodeon Movies movie set. Primary genre #88 Documentary of 204 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 Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) earned a reported $9.4M worldwide against a reported $500.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $8.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 18.80x. In this database it currently ranks #8,002 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #204 among 2005 releases.

Worldwide gross
$9,400,000
Budget
$500,000
Gross minus budget
$8,900,000
ROI
18.80x
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

Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves and their world along the way. Told from their candid, sometimes humorous perspectives, these kids are transformed, from reluctant participants to determined competitors, from typical urban kids to "ladies and gentlemen," on their way to try to compete in the final citywide competition.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 13, 2005
Production
Nickelodeon Movies, Just One Productions, Paramount Classics
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2005, Mad Hot Ballroom is positioned in this dataset as a Documentary, Family title from Nickelodeon Movies. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $9.4M, reported production budget is $500,000, gross-minus-budget is $8.9M, ROI is 18.80x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,002 all-time in the current chart set and #204 among 2005 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.