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#4,640 All-time worldwide
#84 1999 releases

Movie profile

Mystery Men

1999 · 121 min · Universal Pictures

Adventure Fantasy Action Comedy Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $29.8M
Budget $68.0M
Gross minus budget -$38.2M
ROI 0.44x

Domestic gross

$11.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$17.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Mystery Men 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 #4,640 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #84 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Studio / company #212 Universal Pictures of 377 titles Position inside the mapped Universal Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,155 Adventure of 2,138 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 Mystery Men (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Mystery Men (1999) earned a reported $29.8M worldwide against a reported $68.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$38.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.44x. In this database it currently ranks #4,640 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #84 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$29,762,011
Budget
$68,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$38,237,989
ROI
0.44x
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

When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save him.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 6, 1999
Production
Universal Pictures, Golar Productions, Dark Horse Entertainment
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyUniversal Pictures Release year chart1999 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartFantasy Genre chartAction Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, Mystery Men is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Fantasy, Action title from Universal Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $29.8M, reported production budget is $68.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$38.2M, ROI is 0.44x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,640 all-time in the current chart set and #84 among 1999 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.