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#8,400 All-time worldwide
#143 1998 releases

Movie profile

Woo

1998 · 84 min · New Line Cinema

Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.0M
Budget $13.0M
Gross minus budget -$5.0M
ROI 0.62x

Domestic gross

$3.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$899,021

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Woo 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 #8,400 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1998 releases #143 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1998. Studio / company #146 New Line Cinema of 178 titles Position inside the mapped New Line Cinema movie set. Primary genre #3,271 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 Woo (1998) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Woo (1998) earned a reported $8.0M worldwide against a reported $13.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$5.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.62x. In this database it currently ranks #8,400 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #143 among 1998 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,026,971
Budget
$13,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$4,973,029
ROI
0.62x
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

Woo is a woman in control of her world. She is smart, self-confident, sophisticated and snarky. And she doesn't have any trouble attracting members of the opposite sex. But for some reason no one ever sticks around. Woo meets Tim, a paralegal who is her complete opposite. They shouldn't click. However, Woo and Tim begin to bond when a series of weird and stressful calamities hits them while they are on their first date.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 8, 1998
Production
New Line Cinema, New Deal Productions, Gotham Entertainment Group
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyNew Line Cinema Release year chart1998 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartRomance

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1998, Woo is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance title from New Line Cinema. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.0M, reported production budget is $13.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$5.0M, ROI is 0.62x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,400 all-time in the current chart set and #143 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.