<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $38 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $58.4 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Ninth Gate is a 1999 mystery thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Roman Polanski . An international co-production between the United States, Portugal, France, and Spain, the film is loosely based upon Arturo Pérez - Reverte's 1993 novel The Club Dumas . The plot involves the search for a rare and ancient book that purportedly contains a magical secret for summoning the Devil . The premiere showing was at San Sebastián, Spain, on 25 August 1999, a month before the 47th San Sebastian International Film Festival . Though critically and commercially unsuccessful in North America, where reviewers compared it unfavorably with Polanski's celebrated supernatural film Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Ninth Gate earned a worldwide gross of $58.4 million against a $38 million budget . </P> <P> Dean Corso (Johnny Depp), a New York City rare book dealer, makes his living conning people into selling him valuable antique books for a low price, and then re-selling them to private collectors . Corso meets with wealthy book collector Boris Balkan (Frank Langella), who has recently acquired a copy of the (fictional) book The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows by 17th - century author Aristide Torchia, one of only three extant copies . The book is an adaptation of one written by the Devil himself and purportedly contains the means to summon the Devil and acquire invincibility and immortality . Balkan believes two of the copies are forgeries . He hires Corso to check all three and acquire the legitimate one by any means necessary . </P>

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