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#5,531 All-time worldwide
#81 1994 releases

Movie profile

The Air Up There

1994 · 107 min · Nbb Unit One Film Partners

Family Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $21.0M
Budget $17.0M
Gross minus budget $4.0M
ROI 1.24x

Domestic gross

$9.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Air Up There 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 #5,531 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1994 releases #81 Release-year chart position of 238 titles Ranked against movies released in 1994. Primary genre #816 Family of 1,380 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 The Air Up There (1994) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Air Up There (1994) earned a reported $21.0M worldwide against a reported $17.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $4.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.24x. In this database it currently ranks #5,531 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #81 among 1994 releases.

Worldwide gross
$21,011,500
Budget
$17,000,000
Gross minus budget
$4,011,500
ROI
1.24x
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

Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 7, 1994
Production
NBB Unit One Film Partners, Hollywood Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyNbb Unit One Film Partners Release year chart1994 box office Genre chartFamily Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1994, The Air Up There is positioned in this dataset as a Family, Comedy title from NBB Unit One Film Partners. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $21.0M, reported production budget is $17.0M, gross-minus-budget is $4.0M, ROI is 1.24x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,531 all-time in the current chart set and #81 among 1994 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.