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Released
1994 · FILM

Drop Squad

“No struggle, no progress.”

Directed by
David C Johnson
Written by
David Taylor, David C Johnson
Runtime
86 min
ComedyDramaThriller

Synopsis

Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spike Lee is the Executive Producer.

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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 Kevin LeeShot by Ken KelschScored by Michael BeardenDesigned by Ina Mayhew

Box Office

1994 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.7× 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

$735K

Budget$200K
Worldwide gross$735K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $348K — 47% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $444K — 60% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 163 theaters

Also known as

  • Mission D.R.O.P.de
  • Escuadrón de secuestroses

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