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#11,631 All-time worldwide
#111 1980 releases

Movie profile

The Long Good Friday

1980 · 114 min · Calendar Productions

Crime Thriller Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $500,000
Budget $1.0M
Gross minus budget -$500,000
ROI 0.50x

Domestic gross

$250,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$250,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$45,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Long Good Friday 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 #11,631 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1980 releases #111 Release-year chart position of 126 titles Ranked against movies released in 1980. Primary genre #1,772 Crime of 1,921 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.

#11,628 A Family Affair 1937 · $502,000 #11,629 Fire 1997 · $501,533 #11,630 The Killing Time 1987 · $500,283 #11,647 The Dead Mother 1993 · $498,604 #11,648 Epilogue 1984 · $498,209 #11,649 Romola 1924 · $497,234

Quick answer

How did The Long Good Friday (1980) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Long Good Friday (1980) earned a reported $500.0K worldwide against a reported $1.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$500.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.50x. In this database it currently ranks #11,631 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #111 among 1980 releases.

Worldwide gross
$500,000
Budget
$1,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$500,000
ROI
0.50x
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

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 1, 1980
Production
Calendar Productions, Handmade Films, Black Lion Films
Countries
GB

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Studio / production companyCalendar Productions Release year chart1980 box office Genre chartCrime Genre chartThriller Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1980, The Long Good Friday is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Thriller, Drama title from Calendar Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $500,000, reported production budget is $1.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$500,000, ROI is 0.50x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,631 all-time in the current chart set and #111 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.