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Released
2001 · FILM

Bones

This Dogg's got a bone to pick.

Directed by
Runtime
97 min
CrimeFantasyHorror

Synopsis

More than two decades after his death, local figure and community supporter Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to seek vengeance against those responsible for his murder and to revive his neighborhood.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Michael N KnueShot by Flavio LabianoScored by Elia CmiralDesigned by Douglas Higgins

Box Office

2001 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$7.3M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$7.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.8M 39% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.6M49% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 847 theaters

Also known as

  • Bones - Der Tod ist erst der Anfangde
  • Bones – Bis auf die Knochende

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