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Released
1994 · FILM

Bullets Over Broadway

A desperate playwright races to mount his Broadway debut while a ruthless mobster forces him to cast the gangster’s clueless girlfriend as the star, threatening both his artistic vision and his life.

“A killer comedy!”

Directed by
Woody Allen
Written by
Woody Allen, Douglas Mcgrath
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
98 min
ComedyCrime
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

After young playwright David Shayne secures funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive is cast in the role of a psychiatrist. Though Olive is a bimbo with no medical background and no acting ability, David endures her presence along with the leading man, a compulsive eater, the grand dame demanding changes to her role, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard. Ultimately, David must choose between his commitment to art and the realities of life.

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How many hands made this film

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 Susan E MorseShot by Carlo Di PalmaDesigned by Santo Loquasto

Box Office

1994 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.9× 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

$37.5M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$37.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $13.4M — 36% of worldwide · International: $24.1M (64%)

Opening weekend: $86K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $137K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2 theaters

Also known as

  • Coups de feu sur Broadwayfr
  • Pallottole su Broadwayit

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