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Released
1986 · FILM

8 Million Ways to Die

“Death comes to all except those who deserve it most.”

Directed by
Hal Ashby
Written by
Lawrence Block, Oliver Stone
Runtime
115 min
ActionCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The psychological aftermath of the shooting worsens his drinking problem, and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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 Robert LawrenceShot by Stephen H BurumScored by James Newton HowardDesigned by Michael D Haller

Box Office

1986 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$1.3M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$1.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $610K — 47% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Peak 215 theaters

Also known as

  • 8 Millionen Wege zu sterbende
  • Huit millions de façons de mourirfr
  • 8 milioni di modi per morireit

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