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#12,221 All-time worldwide
#239 1998 releases

Movie profile

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie

1998 · 83 min · Good Times Entertainment

Animation Family Music
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $113,484
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget -$9.9M
ROI 0.01x

Domestic gross

$48,798

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$64,686

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$14,639

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie 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 #12,221 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1998 releases #239 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1998. Primary genre #891 Animation of 920 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.

#12,218 Guncrazy 1992 · $114,516 #12,219 Hanna K. 1983 · $114,247 #12,220 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1973 · $113,606 #12,222 Love Child 1982 · $112,940 #12,223 Arizona Dream 1993 · $112,547 #12,224 Biggles 1986 · $112,132

Quick answer

How did Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998) earned a reported $113.5K worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$9.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.01x. In this database it currently ranks #12,221 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #239 among 1998 releases.

Worldwide gross
$113,484
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$9,886,516
ROI
0.01x
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

Young Rudolph suffers a childhood accident that sees his nose turn from the publicly accepted norm of black to a glowing red colour. His parents worry about him getting teased, and indeed he does in the end. When he is beaten in the reindeer games by his rival for a doe he fancies, Rudolph runs away and moves into a cave with Slyly the Fox. However can he overcome his fear and reach his true potential?

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 16, 1998
Production
GoodTimes Entertainment, Golden Books Family Entertainment, Tundra Productions
Countries
GB, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyGood Times Entertainment Release year chart1998 box office Genre chartAnimation Genre chartFamily Genre chartMusic

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1998, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie is positioned in this dataset as a Animation, Family, Music title from GoodTimes Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $113,484, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$9.9M, ROI is 0.01x. For comparison, it currently sits #12,221 all-time in the current chart set and #239 among 1998 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.