#4 All-time worldwide

#1 1997 releases

Movie profile

Titanic

Name: Titanic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1997-12-18
Duration: 194 min

1997 · 194 min · Paramount Pictures

Drama Romance

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8.0/10 1,389,357 user votes

75/100 Metascore

88% Tomatometer

Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.

Worldwide gross $2.26B

Budget $200.0M

Gross minus budget $2.06B

ROI 11.32x

Domestic gross

$905.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.36B

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$253.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Titanic ranks

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

Open rankings

All-time worldwide #4 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1997 releases #1 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 1997. Studio / company #1 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1 Drama of 6,006 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 Titanic (1997) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Titanic (1997) earned a reported $2.26B worldwide against a reported $200.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $2.06B. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 11.32x. In this database it currently ranks #4 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #1 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross: $2,264,162,353
Budget: $200,000,000
Gross minus budget: $2,064,162,353
ROI: 11.32x

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.

Synopsis

Story

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date: Dec 18, 1997
Production: Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment
Director: James Cameron
Writers: James Cameron
Countries: US

Related indexes

Browse related box office pages

Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1997 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartRomance

Ratings

IMDb, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores.

8.0/10 1,389,357 user votes

75/100 Metascore

88% Tomatometer

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, Titanic is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Romance title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.26B, reported production budget is $200.0M, gross-minus-budget is $2.06B, ROI is 11.32x. For comparison, it currently sits #4 all-time in the current chart set and #1 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.