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Chronicle(2012)
Released
2012 · FILM

Chronicle

A socially isolated teen discovers dangerous telekinetic powers after a mysterious crystal encounter and must harness them to protect his family from escalating violence before the abilities consume him.

“What are you capable of?”

Directed by
Josh Trank, John Farrall Miles
Written by
Max Landis, Josh Trank
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
84 min
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Three high school students make an incredible discovery, which leads to them developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives begin to spin out of control, and their darker sides start to take over.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 723+ credited

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 Elliot GreenbergShot by Matthew JensenScored by Youssef GuezoumDesigned by Stephen AltmanSound by Joe BarnettCostumes by Diana CilliersStunts by Kerry GreggVFX by Balakrishnan

Box Office

2012 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.7× 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

$145.0M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$145.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $64.6M — 45% of worldwide · International: $80.4M (55%)

Opening weekend: $22.0M — 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $27.9M — 43% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,907 theaters

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  • Chronicle - Wozu bist du fähig?de

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