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Released
1997 · FILM

Anaconda

Terri Flores leads a daring documentary crew deep into the Amazon to locate the legendary Shirishamas tribe, only to confront a mysterious predator that turns their expedition into a deadly fight for survival.

“When you can't breathe, you can't scream.”

Directed by
Luis Llosa
Written by
Hans Bauer, Jim Cash
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
90 min
ActionAdventureHorror

Synopsis

A *National Geographic* film crew is taken hostage by an unhinged hunter, who forces them to accompany him on his mission to capture the world's largest—and most dangerous—snake.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Michael R MillerShot by Bill ButlerScored by Randy EdelmanDesigned by Kirk M Petruccelli

Box Office

1997 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.0× 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

$136.9M

Budget$45.0M
Worldwide gross$136.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $65.9M — 48% of worldwide · International: $71.0M (52%)

Opening weekend: $16.6M — 25% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $20.7M — 31% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,456 theaters

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Also known as

  • Anacondaen
  • The burial of the bighead anacondaen
  • El entierro de la anaconda cabezonaes

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