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#7,760 All-time worldwide
#59 1980 releases

Movie profile

The Hollywood Knights

1980 · 91 min · Polygram Pictures

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.0M
Budget $2.5M
Gross minus budget $7.5M
ROI 4.00x

Domestic gross

$4.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Hollywood Knights 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 #7,760 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1980 releases #59 Release-year chart position of 126 titles Ranked against movies released in 1980. Studio / company #2 Polygram Pictures of 3 titles Position inside the mapped Polygram Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,022 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.

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Quick answer

How did The Hollywood Knights (1980) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Hollywood Knights (1980) earned a reported $10.0M worldwide against a reported $2.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 4.00x. In this database it currently ranks #7,760 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #59 among 1980 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,000,000
Budget
$2,500,000
Gross minus budget
$7,500,000
ROI
4.00x
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

Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 18, 1980
Production
Polygram Pictures, Columbia Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyPolygram Pictures Release year chart1980 box office Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1980, The Hollywood Knights is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Polygram Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.0M, reported production budget is $2.5M, gross-minus-budget is $7.5M, ROI is 4.00x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,760 all-time in the current chart set and #59 among 1980 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.