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#8,163 All-time worldwide
#91 1988 releases

Movie profile

Salsa

1988 · 98 min · Golan Globus Productions

Music Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.9M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$3.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$995,970

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Salsa 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 #8,163 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1988 releases #91 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1988. Studio / company #7 Golan Globus Productions of 19 titles Position inside the mapped Golan Globus Productions movie set. Primary genre #284 Music of 561 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.

#8,158 Hate Story 3 2015 · $8.9M #8,161 An Hour and a Half 2012 · $8.9M #8,162 The Formula 1980 · $8.9M #8,164 Mystery, Alaska 1999 · $8.9M #8,165 Hyde Park on Hudson 2012 · $8.9M #8,166 The Inkwell 1994 · $8.9M

Quick answer

How did Salsa (1988) perform at the box office?

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Salsa (1988) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $8.9M. In this database it currently ranks #8,163 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #91 among 1988 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,892,589
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

Fatherless barrio Puerto Rican Rico is a menial car mechanic by day, but lives for the nights, when he dances and dates hot dancing girls, cockily convinced the title of Salsa king in fancy nightclub La Luna's upcoming contest is to be his. He encourages his best friend, courteous gentleman Ken, to date his sister Margarita so he gets a free hand with her flirtatious classmate Lola. The reigning salsa queen Luna's interest in Rico as dance-partner threatens his on-off relationship with Vicki. More jealous trouble follows when Ken and Margarita fall in true love.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 9, 1988
Production
Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyGolan Globus Productions Release year chart1988 box office Genre chartMusic Genre chartRomance

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1988, Salsa is positioned in this dataset as a Music, Romance title from Golan-Globus Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.9M. For comparison, it currently sits #8,163 all-time in the current chart set and #91 among 1988 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.