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#7,760 All-time worldwide
#75 1986 releases

Movie profile

'Round Midnight

1986 · 131 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Drama Music
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.0M
Budget $3.0M
Gross minus budget $7.0M
ROI 3.33x

Domestic gross

$5.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$900,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where 'Round Midnight 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 #7,760 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #75 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Studio / company #179 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,252 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 'Round Midnight (1986) perform at the box office?

High confidence

'Round Midnight (1986) earned a reported $10.0M worldwide against a reported $3.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.33x. In this database it currently ranks #7,760 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #75 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,000,000
Budget
$3,000,000
Gross minus budget
$7,000,000
ROI
3.33x
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

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 23, 1986
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures, Winkler Films, Productions et Éditions Cinématographiques Françaises
Countries
US, FR

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Studio / production companyWarner Bros. Pictures Release year chart1986 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartMusic

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, 'Round Midnight is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Music title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.0M, reported production budget is $3.0M, gross-minus-budget is $7.0M, ROI is 3.33x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,760 all-time in the current chart set and #75 among 1986 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.