How to Get Ahead in Advertising

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

“The career where two heads are better than one.”

May 5, 1989R1h 35mTMDB ★ 6.3

Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.

Genres

Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

Studio

Virgin Films

Language

en

Status

Released

Box Office

How How to Get Ahead in Advertising performed

Budget

N/A

Worldwide Gross

$418,053

Gross Profit

N/A

Return

N/A

Opening Wknd (est.)

$47K

Domestic (est.)
International (est.)
$134K$284K

Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~32/68, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Fantasy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.

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