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Released
2002 · FILM

Drumline

A gifted Harlem street drummer enrolls at a Southern university determined to lead its marching band’s drumline to championship glory, but he must overcome fierce rivalry and cultural clash within the squad to earn his place at the top.

“Half time is game time.”

Directed by
Charles Stone Iii
Written by
Shawn Schepps, Tina Gordon
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
118 min
ComedyDramaMusic
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

A street drummer originating from Harlem enrolls at a university in the South with the expectation of directing its marching band.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 34

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 Patricia BowersShot by Shane HurlbutScored by John PowellDesigned by Charles C Bennett

Box Office

2002 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.9× 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

$57.6M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$57.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $56.4M — 98% of worldwide · International: $1.2M (2%)

Opening weekend: $12.6M — 22% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $15.2M — 27% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,836 theaters

Also known as

  • Drumline – Halbzeit ist Spielzeitde
  • Beat Battlefr

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