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#8,448 All-time worldwide
#100 1985 releases

Movie profile

Runaway Train

1985 · 111 min · Golan Globus Productions

Action Thriller Drama Adventure
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $7.9M
Budget $9.0M
Gross minus budget -$1.1M
ROI 0.88x

Domestic gross

$4.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$714,241

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Runaway Train 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 #8,448 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1985 releases #100 Release-year chart position of 184 titles Ranked against movies released in 1985. Studio / company #8 Golan Globus Productions of 19 titles Position inside the mapped Golan Globus Productions movie set. Primary genre #2,311 Action of 2,939 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.

#8,445 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 · $8.0M #8,446 Funny Games 2008 · $7.9M #8,447 A Thousand Acres 1997 · $7.9M #8,449 Planet Single 3 2019 · $7.9M #8,449 Pamfir 2022 · $7.9M #8,451 AI Amok 2020 · $7.9M

Quick answer

How did Runaway Train (1985) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Runaway Train (1985) earned a reported $7.9M worldwide against a reported $9.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$1.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.88x. In this database it currently ranks #8,448 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #100 among 1985 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,936,012
Budget
$9,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$1,063,988
ROI
0.88x
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

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 15, 1985
Production
Golan-Globus Productions, Northbrook Films, The Cannon Group
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyGolan Globus Productions Release year chart1985 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartThriller Genre chartDrama Genre chartAdventure

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1985, Runaway Train is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Thriller, Drama title from Golan-Globus Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $7.9M, reported production budget is $9.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$1.1M, ROI is 0.88x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,448 all-time in the current chart set and #100 among 1985 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.