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Released
1999 · FILM

Beowulf

A warrior named Beowulf battles the monstrous Grendel in a techno-feudal wasteland, where ancient legends and dark secrets threaten the rule of the tyrannical Hrothgar.

A fortress at the edge of darkness. An enemy within that only one man can conquer!

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Runtime
93 min
ActionAdventureFantasy

Synopsis

Beowulf is a wanderer who learns of a man-eating creature named Grendel that attacks at night, devouring warriors at the Outpost. The Outpost is governed by Hrothgar, who has a daughter. Her husband may have been killed by the Outpost's master of arms.

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How many hands made this film

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 Roy WattsShot by Christopher FaloonaScored by Ben WatkinsDesigned by Jonathan A Carlson

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$1.5M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$1.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Beowulfde

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