Editing Coming to America (section)

===Box office===
Released on June 29, 1988, by [[Paramount Pictures]] in the United States, it was a commercial box-office success, both domestically and worldwide.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-26-ca-6143-story.html|title=Weekend Box Office : 'Rabbit' and 'America' Battle for Dollars|last=Easton|first=Nina|author-link=Nina Easton|date=July 26, 1988|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=February 22, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-05-ca-271-story.html|title=Nice Guys Finish First : Roger Rabbit' Hops to Box-Office Top; 'Coming to America' Hits 2nd|last=Easton|first=Nina J.|author-link=Nina Easton|date=January 5, 1989|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=February 22, 2022}}</ref> The film debuted at number one with $21,404,420 from 2,064 screens, for a five-day total of $28,409,497. The film made $128,152,301 in the United States and ended up with a worldwide total of $288,752,301.<ref name="BOM"/> It was the highest earning film that year for the studio and the third-highest-grossing film at the [[United States]] box office.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm|title=1988 Domestic Grosses|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|publisher=[[IMDb]]|access-date=April 2, 2011}}</ref>

It opened a month later in the UK and earned $7,712,622 during its seven-week run. It opened on September 2 in West Germany, where it debuted at number one with $3,715,791 from 297 screens. It ended its run after 13 weeks with $15,743,447. Several contemporary articles stated that the worldwide gross for the movie was $350 million.<ref name="Gross Profit"/><ref name="Murphy made millions"/><ref name="AFI film-55743"/>