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#12,115 All-time worldwide
#186 1989 releases

Movie profile

The Experts

1989 · 94 min · Paramount Pictures

Action Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $169,203
Budget $13.0M
Gross minus budget -$12.8M
ROI 0.01x

Domestic gross

$67,681

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$101,522

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$18,951

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Experts 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 #12,115 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #186 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Studio / company #419 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,864 Action of 2,939 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.

#12,112 Aparajito 1956 · $170,215 #12,113 Pass the Ammo 1988 · $169,785 #12,114 Lady Beware 1987 · $169,666 #12,116 Niagara, Niagara 1998 · $168,462 #12,117 Witchboard 2 1993 · $168,180 #12,118 The Hi-Lo Country 1998 · $166,000

Quick answer

How did The Experts (1989) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Experts (1989) earned a reported $169.2K worldwide against a reported $13.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$12.8M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.01x. In this database it currently ranks #12,115 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #186 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$169,203
Budget
$13,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$12,830,797
ROI
0.01x
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

Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don't know is they've actually been abducted by a KGB operative and flown to the Soviet Union, where they'll unwittingly serve as "experts" on all things cool in America. The town, created expressly for KGB spies-in-training, is meant to serve as a training ground for Soviet agents. What can these two hapless Americans possibly teach the Soviet spies, and will they ever learn they are not actually in Nebraska?

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 13, 1989
Production
Paramount Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1989 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, The Experts is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Comedy title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $169,203, reported production budget is $13.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$12.8M, ROI is 0.01x. For comparison, it currently sits #12,115 all-time in the current chart set and #186 among 1989 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.