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#10,537 All-time worldwide
#130 1985 releases

Movie profile

Warning Sign

1985 · 99 min · 20th Century Fox

Drama Science Fiction Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.9M
Budget $707,990
Gross minus budget $1.2M
ROI 2.71x

Domestic gross

$959,059

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$959,058

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$172,631

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Warning Sign 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 #10,537 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1985 releases #130 Release-year chart position of 184 titles Ranked against movies released in 1985. Studio / company #182 20th Century Fox of 209 titles Position inside the mapped 20th Century Fox movie set. Primary genre #4,607 Drama of 5,859 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 Warning Sign (1985) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Warning Sign (1985) earned a reported $1.9M worldwide against a reported $708.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.71x. In this database it currently ranks #10,537 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #130 among 1985 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,918,117
Budget
$707,990
Gross minus budget
$1,210,127
ROI
2.71x
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

An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 23, 1985
Production
20th Century Fox, SLM Production Group
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production company20th Century Fox Release year chart1985 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartScience Fiction Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1985, Warning Sign is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller title from 20th Century Fox. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.9M, reported production budget is $707,990, gross-minus-budget is $1.2M, ROI is 2.71x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,537 all-time in the current chart set and #130 among 1985 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.