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#4,265 All-time worldwide
#32 1985 releases

Movie profile

The Care Bears Movie

1985 · 76 min · Nelvana

Adventure Fantasy Animation Comedy Family
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $34.0M
Budget $2.0M
Gross minus budget $32.0M
ROI 17.00x

Domestic gross

$14.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$19.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Care Bears Movie 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 #4,265 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1985 releases #32 Release-year chart position of 184 titles Ranked against movies released in 1985. Studio / company #2 Nelvana of 5 titles Position inside the mapped Nelvana movie set. Franchise #1 Care Bears of 3 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #1,091 Adventure of 2,138 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.

#4,261 Endless Love 2014 · $34.1M #4,263 Miracles: The Canton Godfather 1989 · $34.0M #4,264 Death Wish 2018 · $34.0M #4,274 Darkness 2002 · $34.0M #4,275 The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 · $34.0M #4,276 The Relic 1997 · $34.0M

Quick answer

How did The Care Bears Movie (1985) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Care Bears Movie (1985) earned a reported $34.0M worldwide against a reported $2.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $32.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 17.00x. In this database it currently ranks #4,265 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #32 among 1985 releases.

Worldwide gross
$34,000,000
Budget
$2,000,000
Gross minus budget
$32,000,000
ROI
17.00x
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

The Care Bears team up with a troubled brother and sister who just moved to a new town to help a neglected young magician's apprentice whose evil spell book causes sinister things to happen.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 23, 1985
Production
Nelvana, Those Characters From Cleveland, American Greetings
Countries
CA, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyNelvana FranchiseCare Bears Release year chart1985 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartFantasy Genre chartAnimation Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1985, The Care Bears Movie is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Fantasy, Animation title from Nelvana. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $34.0M, reported production budget is $2.0M, gross-minus-budget is $32.0M, ROI is 17.00x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,265 all-time in the current chart set and #32 among 1985 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.