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Released
2006 · FILM

16 Blocks

A burned-out NYPD detective must protect a key witness from assassins while uncovering a deadly conspiracy that implicates his own corrupt colleagues.

1 witness… 118 minutes…

Directed by
Written by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
105 min
ActionDramaThriller

Synopsis

An aging police officer is assigned the routine duty of escorting a talkative witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they soon face a series of obstacles as other forces attempt to stop them from reaching their destination.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 98+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Steve MirkovichShot by Glen MacphersonScored by Klaus BadeltDesigned by Arvinder Greywal

Box Office

2006 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$65.7M

Budget$55.0M
Worldwide gross$65.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $36.9M 56% of worldwide · International: $28.8M (44%)

Opening weekend: $11.9M 32% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $15.4M42% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,706 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • 16 Blocksde
  • 16 blocsfr
  • Solo 2 oreit
  • Solo due oreit

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