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Released
1999 · FILM

Chill Factor

A store clerk and an ice cream truck driver are thrust into a high-stakes race against time to protect a deadly chemical from falling into the wrong hands before it melts and destroys all life.

“Keeping cool is a matter of life and death.”

Directed by
Hugh Johnson, John G Scotti
Written by
Drew Gitlin, Mike Cheda
Runtime
101 min
ActionAdventureComedy

Synopsis

A store clerk and an ice cream truck driver are brought together when a dying scientist entrusts them with a deadly chemical stored in ice. The chemical, named 'Elvis,' is lethal to all living things once it melts. The two unlikely partners must transport the chemical to the nearest military base, while evading terrorists who seek to use it to hold the country hostage for ransom.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Pamela PowerShot by David GribbleScored by John PowellDesigned by Jeremy Conway

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$11.3M

Budget$34.0M
Worldwide gross$11.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.5M — 40% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.5M — 49% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,558 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Chill Faktorde
  • 50 degrés Fahrenheitfr

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