Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Battle Los Angeles
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
2011 · FILM

Battle Los Angeles

A battle‑hardened Marine on the brink of retirement must lead his platoon through an alien‑infested Los Angeles to rescue civilians before a massive airstrike wipes out both the city and any chance of humanity’s survival.

“It's not war. It's survival.”

Directed by
Jonathan Liebesman, Christian Clarke
Written by
Christopher Bertolini, Richard Bennett
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
116 min
ActionAdventureSci-Fi

Synopsis

When distant UFOs transform into a terrifying threat and an alien invasion force begins attacking Earth's major coastal and riverside cities, a U.S. Marine staff sergeant and his team are deployed into battle. They soon find themselves taking matters into their own hands to defeat an unknown enemy and protect what remains of Los Angeles.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Writers
Directors

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 967+ 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 Christian WagnerShot by Lukas EttlinScored by Brian TylerDesigned by Peter WenhamSound by David Giammarco Nm0316102Costumes by Sanja Milkovic HaysStunts by Joey BoxVFX by Jeff Atherton

Box Office

2011 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.0× 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

$211.8M

Budget$70.0M
Worldwide gross$211.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $83.6M — 39% of worldwide · International: $128.2M (61%)

Opening weekend: $35.6M — 43% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $46.0M — 55% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,417 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • World Invasion: Battle Los Angelesde
  • World Invasion: Battle Los Angelesfr
  • World Invasionit

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).