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Released
2009 · FILM

Bandslam

A new kid in town teams up with a shy music lover to form an unlikely rock band, and they must overcome rivalry, self‑doubt, and high‑stakes competition to claim victory at the city’s biggest battle of the bands.

“Band together”

Directed by
Todd Graff
Written by
Josh A Cagan, Todd Graff
Runtime
111 min
ComedyDramaFamily
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

A new kid in town forms a young rock band, and together they work toward achieving their dreams and competing against the best in the biggest event of the year, a battle of the bands.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 John GilbertShot by Eric SteelbergDesigned by Jeff Knipp

Box Office

2009 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$12.2M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$12.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $3.6M

Peak 2,121 theaters

Also known as

  • Bandslam - Get Ready to Rock!de
  • College Rock Starsfr

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