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Released
2015 · FILM

Area 51

Three young conspiracy theorists venture into the forbidden grounds of Area 51, uncovering terrifying secrets that blur the line between government cover-up and extraterrestrial reality.

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Runtime
91 min
HorrorMysterySci-Fi

Synopsis

Three young conspiracy theorists set out to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, a government facility long rumored to be the site of encounters with extraterrestrial beings. Their investigation leads them to the hidden base, where they uncover secrets beyond their imagination.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Blake ManiquisShot by Todd GrossmanDesigned by Patrick M Sullivan Jr

Box Office

2015 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× 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

$8K

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$8K
break-even (2.5×)

Peak 16 theaters

Also known as

  • Area 51de

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