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#8,112 All-time worldwide
#35 1977 releases

Movie profile

Sorcerer

1977 · 122 min · Paramount Pictures

Thriller Adventure Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $9.0M
Budget $22.0M
Gross minus budget -$13.0M
ROI 0.41x

Domestic gross

$4.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$810,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Sorcerer 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 #8,112 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1977 releases #35 Release-year chart position of 69 titles Ranked against movies released in 1977. Studio / company #319 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,817 Thriller of 2,567 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 Sorcerer (1977) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Sorcerer (1977) earned a reported $9.0M worldwide against a reported $22.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$13.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.41x. In this database it currently ranks #8,112 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #35 among 1977 releases.

Worldwide gross
$9,000,000
Budget
$22,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$13,000,000
ROI
0.41x
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

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 24, 1977
Production
Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Film Properties International
Countries
US, MX, DO, FR, IL

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1977 box office Genre chartThriller Genre chartAdventure Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1977, Sorcerer is positioned in this dataset as a Thriller, Adventure, Drama title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $9.0M, reported production budget is $22.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$13.0M, ROI is 0.41x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,112 all-time in the current chart set and #35 among 1977 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.