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#3,486 All-time worldwide
#66 1998 releases

Movie profile

The Big Lebowski

1998 · 117 min · Poly Gram Filmed Entertainment

Comedy Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $47.0M
Budget $15.0M
Gross minus budget $32.0M
ROI 3.13x

Domestic gross

$18.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$28.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$5.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Big Lebowski 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 #3,486 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1998 releases #66 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1998. Studio / company #7 Poly Gram Filmed Entertainment of 25 titles Position inside the mapped Poly Gram Filmed Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #1,315 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.

#3,483 GoodFellas 1990 · $47.1M #3,484 Dracula 2000 2000 · $47.1M #3,485 Looper 2012 · $47.0M #3,487 The Quick and the Dead 1995 · $47.0M #3,488 My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission 2021 · $46.9M #3,489 See No Evil, Hear No Evil 1989 · $46.9M

Quick answer

How did The Big Lebowski (1998) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Big Lebowski (1998) earned a reported $47.0M worldwide against a reported $15.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $32.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.13x. In this database it currently ranks #3,486 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #66 among 1998 releases.

Worldwide gross
$47,010,480
Budget
$15,000,000
Gross minus budget
$32,010,480
ROI
3.13x
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

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 6, 1998
Production
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films
Countries
GB, US

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Studio / production companyPoly Gram Filmed Entertainment Release year chart1998 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1998, The Big Lebowski is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime title from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $47.0M, reported production budget is $15.0M, gross-minus-budget is $32.0M, ROI is 3.13x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,486 all-time in the current chart set and #66 among 1998 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.