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Released
2025 · FILM

Death of a Unicorn

When a grieving father and his teenage daughter accidentally kill a rare unicorn on the way to a weekend retreat, they must outwit their ruthless billionaire boss who will stop at nothing to harvest its miraculous regenerative powers before the creature's death triggers a deadly curse.

Payback is a beast.

Directed by
Written by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
107 min
ComedyFantasyHorror

Synopsis

A father and daughter accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss seeks to exploit the creature's miraculous curative properties.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 28

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 Ron DulinShot by Larry FongScored by Giosue GrecoDesigned by Amy Williams

Box Office

2025 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$16.4M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$16.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $12.9M 79% of worldwide · International: $3.5M (21%)

Opening weekend: $5.8M 45% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.8M45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,050 theaters

Production & Distribution

Production

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