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Bad Times at the El Royale(2018)
Released
2018 · FILM

Bad Times at the El Royale

When five strangers check into a decaying border‑state hotel haunted by hidden cameras and deadly secrets, they must outwit a murderous conspiracy that threatens to expose their pasts and kill them all.

“Seven strangers. Seven secrets. All roads lead here.”

Directed by
Drew Goddard, Paul Barry
Written by
Drew Goddard, Robert Consing
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
141 min
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

In 1969, at the El Royale, a once-grand motel on the shores of Lake Tahoe, seven strangers with hidden pasts converge for a night that will change their lives. Each carries a secret, and as the evening unfolds, the motel's dark history begins to mirror their own. What starts as a chance encounter turns into a night of reckoning, where each person is given one final opportunity to seek redemption.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 802+ 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 Lisa LassekShot by Seamus McgarveyScored by Michael GiacchinoDesigned by Martin WhistSound by Casey GentonCostumes by Danny GlickerStunts by Scott J AteahVFX by David W Allen

Box Office

2018 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 1.0× 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

$31.9M

Budget$32.0M
Worldwide gross$31.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.8M — 56% of worldwide · International: $14.0M (44%)

Opening weekend: $7.1M — 40% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $10.0M — 56% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,808 theaters

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Also known as

  • Bad Times at the El Royalede
  • Sale temps à l'hôtel El Royalefr
  • 7 sconosciuti a El Royaleit

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