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Released
2000 · FILM

Bait

A petty thief is released from prison and lured into a dangerous game when federal agents use him as bait to catch the mastermind behind a massive gold heist.

“Alvin Sanders is going to help the Feds catch a killer. He just doesn't know it yet.”

Directed by
Antoine Fuqua
Written by
Andrew Scheinman, Adam Scheinman
Runtime
119 min
ActionComedyCrime
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

Alvin is sent to jail for a minor theft and ends up sharing a cell with John Jaster, one half of a high-tech thief duo responsible for a stolen gold heist. The other half, Bristol, remains at large. Alvin's goal is to get out of prison and begin a new life with his girlfriend, Lisa. When federal agents, led by U.S. Treasury investigator Clenteen, release him under a questionable arrangement, Alvin believes his fortunes are turning. In reality, he is now free, and the Feds have used him as bait.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Alan Edward BellShot by Tobias A SchliesslerScored by Eddie BerkeleyDesigned by Peter Jamison

Box Office

2000 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$15.5M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$15.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $15.3M — 99% of worldwide · International: $175K (1%)

Opening weekend: $5.5M — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.2M — 47% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,352 theaters

Also known as

  • Bait - Fette Beutede
  • Piégéfr
  • Bait - L'escait

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