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Released
2014 · FILM

Earth to Echo

Three neighborhood friends must decipher mysterious phone messages to rescue a stranded alien, all while evading ruthless pursuers who will stop at nothing to capture the creature.

“An adventure as big as the universe.”

Directed by
Dave Green
Written by
Henry Gayden, Andrew Panay
Runtime
91 min
AdventureFamilySci-Fi

Synopsis

When a construction project starts digging in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck, Munch, and Alex begin receiving strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Believing there is more to the situation, they approach their parents and the authorities. Determined to uncover the truth, the three set out on a secret adventure to decode the messages and trace them to their origin. In doing so, they encounter a mysterious being from another world who urgently needs their assistance. The journey that follows has a lasting impact on all their lives.

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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 Crispin StruthersShot by Maxime AlexandreScored by Joseph TrapaneseDesigned by Kasra Farahani

Box Office

2014 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.5× 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

$45.3M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$45.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $38.9M — 86% of worldwide · International: $6.4M (14%)

Opening weekend: $5.2M — 13% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.2M — 13% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,229 theaters

Also known as

  • Earth to Echode
  • Earth to Echo - Ein Abenteuer so groß wie das Universumde
  • Échofr

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