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Released
1998 · FILM

Deep Rising

When a crew of heavily armed thieves boards a luxury ocean liner to pull off a high‑stakes heist, they must battle nightmarish, tentacled monsters that have already seized control of the ship.

“Full scream ahead.”

Directed by
Stephen Sommers
Written by
Stephen Sommers
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
106 min
ActionAdventureHorror

Synopsis

A group of heavily armed hijackers boards a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean with the intention of looting it, only to encounter a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures that have already taken over the ship.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Bob DucsayShot by Howard AthertonScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Holger Gross

Box Office

1998 · 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

$11.2M

Budget$45.0M
Worldwide gross$11.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.7M — 42% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.9M — 52% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,758 theaters

Also known as

  • Octalus - Der Tod aus der Tiefede
  • Un cri dans l'océanfr

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