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#7,865 All-time worldwide
#134 1998 releases

Movie profile

Very Bad Things

1998 · 100 min · Vbt Productions

Comedy Crime Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $9.9M
Budget $30.0M
Gross minus budget -$20.1M
ROI 0.33x

Domestic gross

$4.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Very Bad Things 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 #7,865 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1998 releases #134 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1998. Primary genre #3,061 Comedy of 4,840 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 Very Bad Things (1998) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Very Bad Things (1998) earned a reported $9.9M worldwide against a reported $30.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$20.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.33x. In this database it currently ranks #7,865 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #134 among 1998 releases.

Worldwide gross
$9,898,412
Budget
$30,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$20,101,588
ROI
0.33x
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

Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 11, 1998
Production
VBT Productions, Initial Entertainment Group, Interscope Communications
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyVbt Productions Release year chart1998 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1998, Very Bad Things is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime, Thriller title from VBT Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $9.9M, reported production budget is $30.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$20.1M, ROI is 0.33x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,865 all-time in the current chart set and #134 among 1998 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.