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Released
1984 · FILM

2010: The Year We Make Contact

A joint American‑Soviet crew races to rendezvous with a derelict spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, hoping to uncover the cause of its failure before a looming nuclear war and a murderous onboard computer seal humanity’s fate.

“In the very near future, a small group of Americans and Russians set out on the greatest adventure of them all...to see if there is life beyond the stars.”

Directed by
Peter Hyams, William S Beasley
Written by
Arthur C Clarke, Peter Hyams
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
116 min
AdventureMysterySci-Fi

Synopsis

As planet Earth teeters on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov makes its way to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 134+ 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 Mia GoldmanShot by Peter HyamsScored by David ShireDesigned by Albert BrennerSound by Richard L AndersonCostumes by Patricia NorrisStunts by M James Arnett

Box Office

1984 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× 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

$40.4M

Budget$28.0M
Worldwide gross$40.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • (French)2010 année du premier contact
  • (Bulgarian)2010: Годината, в която установяваме контакт
  • 2010: Das Jahr, in dem wir Kontakt aufnehmende
  • 2010en
  • 2010 : L'Année du premier contactfr
  • 2010 - L'anno del contattoit
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • CanadaDec 7, 1984
  • United StatesDec 7, 1984
  • ArgentinaJan 17, 1985
  • BrazilJan 25, 1985
  • GermanyFeb 22, 1985

Companies

ProductionMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
DistributionMGM/UA Entertainment Company, United International Pictures (UIP), Cinema International Corporation (CIC), Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Nova Film
Special effectsEntertainment Effects Group, Digital Productions, Bo Gehring Associates
Other companiesVideo, Cinema Research, Marineland, Panavision, Panasonic

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