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Released
2023 · FILM

Asteroid City

A war photojournalist and his family find themselves entangled in the strange, stylized world of a desert town's annual astronomy convention, where reality and performance blur in a race to connect with each other before the world ends.

“"You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep"”

Directed by
Wes Anderson, Maria Bardi
Written by
Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
105 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

Set in an American desert town around 1955, the planned events of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention are dramatically upended by occurrences that alter the course of the world.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 395+ credited

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 Barney PillingShot by Robert D YeomanScored by Alexandre DesplatDesigned by Adam StockhausenSound by Arman CiudadCostumes by Milena CanoneroStunts by Catalina FernandezVFX by Kaustubh Athavale

Box Office

2023 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.2× 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

$53.9M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$53.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $28.2M — 52% of worldwide · International: $25.7M (48%)

Opening weekend: $853K — 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.2M — 4% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 6 theaters

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Also known as

  • (English)Asteroid City
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • FranceMay 23, 2023
  • AustraliaJun 8, 2023
  • HungaryJun 8, 2023
  • EstoniaJun 9, 2023
  • FinlandJun 9, 2023

Companies

ProductionFocus Features, Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures

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