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Released
1992 · FILM

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

“Chosen by a queen. Driven by a dream. He dared to go to the edge, and kept going.”

Directed by
John Glen
Written by
Mario Puzo, John Briley
Runtime
120 min
AdventureBiographyDrama

Synopsis

Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies, by traveling west instead of east, across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese, he goes to the Spanish court to ask Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for help. After surviving a grilling from the Head of the Spanish Inquisition Tomas de Torquemada, he eventually gets the blessing from Queen Isabella and sets sail in three ships to travel into the unknown. Along the way he must deal with sabotage from Portugese spies and mutiny from a rebellious crew.

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How many hands made this film

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 Matthew GlenShot by Alec MillsScored by Cliff EidelmanDesigned by Gil Parrondo

Box Office

1992 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$8.3M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$8.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Christopher Columbus - Der Entdeckerde
  • Cristóbal Colón: el descubrimientoes
  • Christophe Colomb : La découvertefr
  • Cristoforo Colombo: la scopertait

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