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#6,098 All-time worldwide
#46 1981 releases

Movie profile

Outland

1981 · 110 min · The Ladd Company

Science Fiction Action Thriller Crime Western
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $17.4M
Budget $18.0M
Gross minus budget -$625,405
ROI 0.97x

Domestic gross

$6.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$10.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Outland 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 #6,098 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1981 releases #46 Release-year chart position of 138 titles Ranked against movies released in 1981. Studio / company #7 The Ladd Company of 14 titles Position inside the mapped The Ladd Company movie set. Primary genre #755 Science Fiction of 1,234 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 Outland (1981) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Outland (1981) earned a reported $17.4M worldwide against a reported $18.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$625.4K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.97x. In this database it currently ranks #6,098 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #46 among 1981 releases.

Worldwide gross
$17,374,595
Budget
$18,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$625,405
ROI
0.97x
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

On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel goes toe-to-toe with the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while investigating a rash of worker suicides.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 22, 1981
Production
The Ladd Company, Outland Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries
GB, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1981, Outland is positioned in this dataset as a Science Fiction, Action, Thriller title from The Ladd Company. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $17.4M, reported production budget is $18.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$625,405, ROI is 0.97x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,098 all-time in the current chart set and #46 among 1981 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.