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#11,718 All-time worldwide
#214 1997 releases

Movie profile

Wild Man Blues

1997 · 105 min · Cabin Creek Films

Music Documentary
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $425,788
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$170,315

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$255,473

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$47,688

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Wild Man Blues 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 #11,718 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1997 releases #214 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 1997. Studio / company #1 Cabin Creek Films of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Cabin Creek Films movie set. Primary genre #499 Music of 561 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.

#11,715 Luminarias 2000 · $428,535 #11,716 Last Rites 1988 · $426,965 #11,717 Burning Ambition 1989 · $425,977 #11,719 Handsome Poor Bilo 1979 · $425,000 #11,720 The Roar of the Vietnamese 1991 · $424,910 #11,721 Drowning by Numbers 1988 · $424,773

Quick answer

How did Wild Man Blues (1997) perform at the box office?

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Wild Man Blues (1997) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $425.8K. In this database it currently ranks #11,718 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #214 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross
$425,788
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

Wild Man Blues is a 1998 documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple, about the musical avocation of actor/director/comic Woody Allen. The film takes its name from a jazz composition sometimes attributed to Jelly Roll Morton and sometimes to Louis Armstrong and recorded by both (among others). Allen's love of early 20th century New Orleans music is depicted through his 1996 tour of Europe with his New Orleans Jazz Band. Allen has played clarinet with this band for over 25 years. Although Allen's European tour is the film's primary focus, it was also notable as the first major public showcase for Allen's relationship with Soon-Yi Previn.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 16, 1997
Production
Cabin Creek Films
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyCabin Creek Films Release year chart1997 box office Genre chartMusic Genre chartDocumentary

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, Wild Man Blues is positioned in this dataset as a Music, Documentary title from Cabin Creek Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $425,788. For comparison, it currently sits #11,718 all-time in the current chart set and #214 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.