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#4,987 All-time worldwide
#39 1985 releases

Movie profile

The Last Dragon

1985 · 109 min · Tri Star Pictures

Action Adventure Music Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $25.8M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget $15.8M
ROI 2.58x

Domestic gross

$12.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Last Dragon 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 #4,987 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1985 releases #39 Release-year chart position of 184 titles Ranked against movies released in 1985. Studio / company #37 Tri Star Pictures of 96 titles Position inside the mapped Tri Star Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,558 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.

#4,984 The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil 2019 · $25.8M #4,985 Rust and Bone 2012 · $25.8M #4,986 Only the Brave 2017 · $25.8M #4,988 RocknRolla 2008 · $25.7M #4,989 Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the World of Magic 1984 · $25.7M #4,989 Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth 1993 · $25.7M

Quick answer

How did The Last Dragon (1985) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Last Dragon (1985) earned a reported $25.8M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $15.8M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.58x. In this database it currently ranks #4,987 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #39 among 1985 releases.

Worldwide gross
$25,754,284
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
$15,754,284
ROI
2.58x
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

A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 22, 1985
Production
TriStar Pictures, Motown Productions, Tri-Star-Delphi III Productions
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyTri Star Pictures Release year chart1985 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartAdventure Genre chartMusic Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1985, The Last Dragon is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Adventure, Music title from TriStar Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $25.8M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is $15.8M, ROI is 2.58x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,987 all-time in the current chart set and #39 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.