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#8,886 All-time worldwide
#106 1989 releases

Movie profile

Music Box

1989 · 124 min · Carolco Pictures

Drama Thriller Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $6.3M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$3.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$563,750

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Music Box 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 #8,886 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #106 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Studio / company #17 Carolco Pictures of 20 titles Position inside the mapped Carolco Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,784 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 Music Box (1989) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Music Box (1989) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $6.3M. In this database it currently ranks #8,886 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #106 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$6,263,883
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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 lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 22, 1989
Production
Carolco Pictures, Winkler Films
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyCarolco Pictures Release year chart1989 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartThriller Genre chartMystery

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, Music Box is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Thriller, Mystery title from Carolco Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $6.3M. For comparison, it currently sits #8,886 all-time in the current chart set and #106 among 1989 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.