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Released
2002 · FILM

Bad Company

A street‑wise hustler is thrust into the world of espionage when the CIA recruits him to finish his dead twin brother’s top‑secret mission, forcing him to survive lethal training and outwit ruthless enemies while proving he can handle a job meant for a Harvard graduate.

The world is in good hands.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
116 min
ActionComedyThriller

Synopsis

When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

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 Mark GoldblattShot by Dariusz WolskiScored by Eddie BerkeleyDesigned by Jan Roelfs

Box Office

2002 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$66.0M

Budget$70.0M
Worldwide gross$66.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $30.2M 46% of worldwide · International: $35.8M (54%)

Opening weekend: $11.0M 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $15.7M52% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,944 theaters

Also known as

  • Bad Companyde
  • Bad Company - Die Welt ist in guten Händende
  • Bad Company - Protocollo Pragait
  • Bad Company: Protocollo di Pragait

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