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#12,185 All-time worldwide
#241 1997 releases

Movie profile

The Night Flier

1997 · 93 min · New Amsterdam Entertainment

Horror Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $125,397
Budget $1.0M
Gross minus budget -$874,603
ROI 0.13x

Domestic gross

$60,191

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$65,206

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$25,882

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Night Flier 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 #12,185 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1997 releases #241 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 1997. Studio / company #2 New Amsterdam Entertainment of 2 titles Position inside the mapped New Amsterdam Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #1,181 Horror of 1,240 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.

#12,182 Hustler White 1996 · $127,251 #12,183 Police Academy: Mission to Moscow 1994 · $126,247 #12,184 Gaby: A True Story 1987 · $125,400 #12,186 The In Crowd 1988 · $124,880 #12,187 Oleanna 1994 · $124,693 #12,188 Six-String Samurai 1998 · $124,494

Quick answer

How did The Night Flier (1997) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Night Flier (1997) earned a reported $125.4K worldwide against a reported $1.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$874.6K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.13x. In this database it currently ranks #12,185 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #241 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross
$125,397
Budget
$1,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$874,603
ROI
0.13x
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

For cynical tabloid journo Richard Dees, facts are always stranger than fiction. Every headline is a dead-line. Serial killers, UFO abductions, tales of molestation, mayhem and murder. To some the tales are mere sleazy fantasy – but his faithful readers believe. And now there's a new story: The Night Flier. What is it that travels by night in a dark-winged Cessna, lands at secluded airfields and murders local residents? Dees begins to track the unknown killer in a Cessna of his own, uncovering clues that reveal a pilot more terrifying than he could have ever imagined.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 30, 1997
Production
New Amsterdam Entertainment, Stardust International, Medusa Film
Countries
IT, US

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Studio / production companyNew Amsterdam Entertainment Release year chart1997 box office Genre chartHorror Genre chartMystery

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, The Night Flier is positioned in this dataset as a Horror, Mystery title from New Amsterdam Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $125,397, reported production budget is $1.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$874,603, ROI is 0.13x. For comparison, it currently sits #12,185 all-time in the current chart set and #241 among 1997 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.