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#11,835 All-time worldwide
#239 2000 releases

Movie profile

Waking the Dead

2000 · 105 min · Poly Gram Filmed Entertainment

Mystery Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $327,418
Budget $8.5M
Gross minus budget -$8.2M
ROI 0.04x

Domestic gross

$163,709

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$163,709

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$29,468

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Waking the Dead 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 #11,835 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2000 releases #239 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2000. Studio / company #21 Poly Gram Filmed Entertainment of 25 titles Position inside the mapped Poly Gram Filmed Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #912 Mystery of 951 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.

#11,831 Sharbeka Darbeka 1993 · $330,000 #11,833 Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl 1982 · $327,958 #11,834 Original Sin 1988 · $327,535 #11,836 On the Wrong Track 1983 · $327,097 #11,837 Come Undone 2000 · $326,484 #11,838 The Holy Virgin Versus the Evil Dead 1991 · $326,224

Quick answer

How did Waking the Dead (2000) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Waking the Dead (2000) earned a reported $327.4K worldwide against a reported $8.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$8.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.04x. In this database it currently ranks #11,835 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #239 among 2000 releases.

Worldwide gross
$327,418
Budget
$8,500,000
Gross minus budget
-$8,172,582
ROI
0.04x
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

A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 24, 2000
Production
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Egg Pictures, Gramercy Pictures
Countries
CA, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyPoly Gram Filmed Entertainment Release year chart2000 box office Genre chartMystery Genre chartDrama Genre chartRomance

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2000, Waking the Dead is positioned in this dataset as a Mystery, Drama, Romance title from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $327,418, reported production budget is $8.5M, gross-minus-budget is -$8.2M, ROI is 0.04x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,835 all-time in the current chart set and #239 among 2000 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.