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#10,273 All-time worldwide
#140 1990 releases

Movie profile

White Hunter, Black Heart

1990 · 112 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Adventure Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.3M
Budget $24.0M
Gross minus budget -$21.7M
ROI 0.10x

Domestic gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$207,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where White Hunter, Black Heart 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 #10,273 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #140 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Studio / company #246 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,931 Adventure of 2,138 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 White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) perform at the box office?

High confidence

White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) earned a reported $2.3M worldwide against a reported $24.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$21.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.10x. In this database it currently ranks #10,273 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #140 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,300,000
Budget
$24,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$21,700,000
ROI
0.10x
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

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and killing one specific elephant.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 16, 1990
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures, Malpaso Productions, Rastar Productions
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyWarner Bros. Pictures Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, White Hunter, Black Heart is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Drama title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.3M, reported production budget is $24.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$21.7M, ROI is 0.10x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,273 all-time in the current chart set and #140 among 1990 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.