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#10,529 All-time worldwide
#148 1988 releases

Movie profile

Spellbinder

1988 · 99 min · Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Horror Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.9M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$930,264

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$400,014

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Spellbinder 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 #10,529 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1988 releases #148 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1988. Studio / company #205 Metro Goldwyn Mayer of 281 titles Position inside the mapped Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie set. Primary genre #1,000 Horror of 1,240 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.

#10,526 The Legend of Nigger Charley 1972 · $1.9M #10,527 Happy, Texas 1999 · $1.9M #10,528 Madame Bovary 1991 · $1.9M #10,530 Masterminds 1997 · $1.9M #10,531 Erik the Viking 1989 · $1.9M #10,532 High Art 1998 · $1.9M

Quick answer

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

Medium confidence

Spellbinder (1988) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $1.9M. In this database it currently ranks #10,529 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #148 among 1988 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,938,049
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

After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 23, 1988
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1988, Spellbinder is positioned in this dataset as a Horror, Drama, Romance title from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.9M. For comparison, it currently sits #10,529 all-time in the current chart set and #148 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.