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#3,497 All-time worldwide
#68 1998 releases

Movie profile

Practical Magic

1998 · 104 min · Di Novi Pictures

Romance Comedy Fantasy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $46.7M
Budget $75.0M
Gross minus budget -$28.3M
ROI 0.62x

Domestic gross

$18.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$28.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$5.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Practical Magic 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 #3,497 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1998 releases #68 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1998. Studio / company #3 Di Novi Pictures of 6 titles Position inside the mapped Di Novi Pictures movie set. Primary genre #565 Romance of 2,607 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 Practical Magic (1998) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Practical Magic (1998) earned a reported $46.7M worldwide against a reported $75.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$28.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.62x. In this database it currently ranks #3,497 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #68 among 1998 releases.

Worldwide gross
$46,733,235
Budget
$75,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$28,266,765
ROI
0.62x
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

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 16, 1998
Production
Di Novi Pictures, Fortis Films, Village Roadshow Pictures
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1998, Practical Magic is positioned in this dataset as a Romance, Comedy, Fantasy title from Di Novi Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $46.7M, reported production budget is $75.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$28.3M, ROI is 0.62x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,497 all-time in the current chart set and #68 among 1998 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.