#2,050 All-time worldwide

#5 1974 releases

Movie profile

The Man with the Golden Gun

Name: The Man with the Golden Gun
Genre: Adventure, Action, Thriller
Released: 1974-12-04
Duration: 125 min

1974 · 125 min · Eon Productions

Adventure Action Thriller

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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.

Worldwide gross $97.6M

Budget $7.0M

Gross minus budget $90.6M

ROI 13.94x

Domestic gross

$39.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$58.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$10.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Man with the Golden Gun ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.

Open rankings

All-time worldwide #2,050 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1974 releases #5 Release-year chart position of 73 titles Ranked against movies released in 1974. Studio / company #19 Eon Productions of 24 titles Position inside the mapped Eon Productions movie set. Franchise #23 James Bond of 26 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #697 Adventure of 2,164 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.

#2,047 Phone Booth 2003 · $97.8M #2,048 Fred Claus 2007 · $97.8M #2,049 A Simple Favor 2018 · $97.6M #2,052 The Woman King 2022 · $97.6M #2,053 One Fine Day 1996 · $97.5M #2,054 The Book of Life 2014 · $97.4M

Quick answer

How did The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) earned a reported $97.6M worldwide against a reported $7.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $90.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 13.94x. In this database it currently ranks #2,050 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #5 among 1974 releases.

Worldwide gross: $97,600,000
Budget: $7,000,000
Gross minus budget: $90,600,000
ROI: 13.94x

Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date: Dec 4, 1974
Production: EON Productions, United Artists
Countries: GB, US

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Studio / production companyEon Productions FranchiseJames Bond Release year chart1974 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartAction Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1974, The Man with the Golden Gun is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Action, Thriller title from EON Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $97.6M, reported production budget is $7.0M, gross-minus-budget is $90.6M, ROI is 13.94x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,050 all-time in the current chart set and #5 among 1974 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.