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Released
2011 · FILM

Attack the Block

A South London teen gang must band together with their neighborhood to survive a violent alien attack on Guy Fawkes Night.

“Inner City vs. Outer Space”

Directed by
Joe Cornish, Dan Channing Williams
Written by
Joe Cornish
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
88 min
ActionAdventureComedy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A group of teenage gang members from South London unite with the other residents of their housing estate to defend the neighborhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 257+ 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 Jonathan AmosShot by Thomas TownendScored by Steven PriceDesigned by Marcus RowlandSound by Clive DerbyshireCostumes by Rosa Dias

Box Office

2011 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$6.3M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$6.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $218K

Peak 8 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • (English)Attack the Block
  • Attack the Blockde
  • (Bulgarian)Блок под атака
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • United StatesMar 12, 2011
  • United KingdomMay 13, 2011
  • IrelandMay 13, 2011
  • IndonesiaJun 15, 2011
  • MalaysiaJun 23, 2011

Companies

ProductionStudioCanal, Film4, UK Film Council

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