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Released
2001 · FILM

CQ

Every picture tells a story.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
88 min
ComedyDramaSci-Fi

Synopsis

In 1960s Paris, a young filmmaker balances directing a low‑budget science‑fiction film, creating his own personal art project, managing the deterioration of his relationship with his girlfriend, and developing an infatuation with the starlet of the science‑fiction production.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Leslie JonesShot by Robert D YeomanScored by Pierre Begon LoursDesigned by Dean Tavoularis

Box Office

2001 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$500K

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$500K
break-even (2.5×)

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