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#6,440 All-time worldwide
#80 1990 releases

Movie profile

Spaced Invaders

1990 · 100 min · Touchstone Pictures

Comedy Family Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.4M
Budget $3.0M
Gross minus budget $12.4M
ROI 5.12x

Domestic gross

$6.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$8.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Spaced Invaders 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 #6,440 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #80 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Studio / company #85 Touchstone Pictures of 113 titles Position inside the mapped Touchstone Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,503 Comedy of 4,840 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 Spaced Invaders (1990) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Spaced Invaders (1990) earned a reported $15.4M worldwide against a reported $3.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $12.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 5.12x. In this database it currently ranks #6,440 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #80 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,369,573
Budget
$3,000,000
Gross minus budget
$12,369,573
ROI
5.12x
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 crew of Martians overhears a radio broadcast of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" coming from Earth, and, thinking the Martian fleet is attacking Earth, they land their broken-down ship in a backwater mid-American town. As luck would have it, they land on Halloween and get mistaken for trick-or-treaters. Comedy ensues as the Martians try to get taken seriously.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 27, 1990
Production
Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyTouchstone Pictures Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartFamily Genre chartScience Fiction

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, Spaced Invaders is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Family, Science Fiction title from Touchstone Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.4M, reported production budget is $3.0M, gross-minus-budget is $12.4M, ROI is 5.12x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,440 all-time in the current chart set and #80 among 1990 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.