The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Box Office Reported grosses are direct imports. Inflation-adjusted values use imported adjusted totals when available, otherwise they use the yearly U.S. CPI table you maintain in WordPress.
Inflation-adjusted values are shown in 2025 dollars when CPI data is available.
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Domestic Domestic theatrical box office gross.
1990
$103,738,726
$255,497,291
International International theatrical box office gross.
Estimated revenues and expenses for films based on currently imported reported and estimated fields. Inflation-adjusted values use the CPI table when direct adjusted values are not present in the export.
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Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue Estimated distributor theatrical revenue using the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.
1990
$51,869,363 (est)
$127,748,645 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.
1990
$0
$0
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.
1990
$0
$0
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.
1990
$26,743,182 (est)
$65,865,571 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view.
1990
$102,391,977
$252,180,393
Expenses
Budget Production budget.
1990
$47,000,000
$112,807,192
Print & Advertising (P&A) Estimated prints and advertising cost.sourceSource: Dick Tracy (1990 film) - WikipediaURL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(1990_film)Disney spent an additional $48.1 million on advertising and publicity, and $5.8 million on prints, resulting in a total of $101 million spent overall.
1990
$53,900,000
$132,749,885
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.
1990
$0 (est)
$0 (est)
Residuals Residual and related distribution expense line. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.
1990
$2,355,015 (est)
$5,800,149 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model.
1990
$5,640,000 (est)
$13,890,712 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view.
1990
$108,895,015
$265,247,938
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model.