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Released
2001 · FILM

Ali

A charismatic champion battles to claim—and keep—the heavyweight title while confronting a nation divided over race, politics, and his own convictions; every fight becomes a high‑stakes showdown between his unshakable self‑belief and the forces determined to silence him.

“Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.”

Directed by
Michael Mann, Michael Mann Nm0000520
Written by
Gregory Allen Howard, Stephen J Rivele
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
157 min
BiographyDramaSport

Synopsis

In 1964, a bold new professional boxer, recently victorious with an Olympic gold medal, enters the scene: Cassius Clay. Confident and vocal, he presents a strikingly new image for African Americans in sports through his public self-assurance and his unshakable conviction that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the height of his career, both Ali

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 28

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 William GoldenbergShot by Emmanuel LubezkiScored by Pieter BourkeDesigned by John Myhre

Box Office

2001 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$87.8M

Budget$107.0M
Worldwide gross$87.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $58.2M — 66% of worldwide · International: $29.6M (34%)

Opening weekend: $20.0M — 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $20.0M — 34% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,446 theaters

Also known as

  • Alide
  • Will Smith: Alide
  • Alìit

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