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Released
1997 · FILM

An American Werewolf in Paris

An unsuspecting American tourist in Paris must outwit a secretive pack of werewolves wielding a transformation serum before they turn the city’s nightlife into a blood‑soaked nightmare.

“Things are about to get a little hairy.”

Directed by
Anthony Waller
Written by
John Landis, Tim Burns
Runtime
98 min
ComedyFantasyHorror
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

An American man becomes unintentionally entangled with a group of werewolves who have created a serum that enables them to transform at will.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Peter R AdamShot by Egon WerdinScored by Wilbert HirschDesigned by Matthias Kammermeier

Box Office

1997 · 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

$26.6M

Budget$22.0M
Worldwide gross$26.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.4M — 13% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.4M — 13% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,728 theaters

Also known as

  • American Werewolf in Parisde
  • Un hombre lobo americano en Paríses
  • Le Loup-garou de Parisfr
  • Un lupo mannaro americano a Parigiit

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