Editing Hudson Hawk (section)

===Box office===
The film performed poorly in the United States, partly because the film was intended as an absurd comedy, yet was marketed as an action film one year after the success of ''[[Die Hard 2]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=No Blockbusters Among This Crop of Memorial Day Movies|newspaper=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|date=May 28, 1991|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-28-ca-2601-story.html|access-date=December 20, 2010|first=David J.|last=Fox|archive-date=November 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104104534/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-28/entertainment/ca-2601_1_memorial-day|url-status=live}}</ref> It grossed only $17 million in the United States and Canada.<ref name="boxofficemojo.com">{{cite web|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|title=Hudson Hawk |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hudsonhawk.htm |access-date=August 3, 2009|archive-date=June 30, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630143400/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hudsonhawk.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Internationally, it performed much better, grossing $80 million<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Daily Variety]]|page=2|date=October 24, 1991|last=Archerd|first=Army|author-link=Army Archerd|title=Just For Variety}}</ref> for a worldwide total of $97 million. By the end of its theatrical run, the film had lost the studio an estimated $90 million.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://theguardian.com/film/2021/may/14/hudson-hawk-bruce-willis-hear-me-out |title=Hear me out: why Hudson Hawk isn't a bad movie &#124; Movies |work=The Guardian |date=May 14, 2021 |access-date=2022-05-16}}</ref>

The film performed well on home video<ref name=video/> and by 1995 started to pay out to profit participants, including Bruce Willis.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Daily Variety]]|page=2|date=October 19, 1995|last=Archerd|first=Army|author-link=Army Archerd|title=Just For Variety}}</ref>