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Eastern Promises(2007)
Released
2007 · FILM

Eastern Promises

A compassionate midwife discovers a dying teen’s newborn and races against a ruthless Russian mobster and bureaucratic red tape to locate the child’s hidden family before the infant is lost to foster care.

“Every sin leaves a mark.”

Directed by
David Cronenberg
Written by
Steven Knight
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
100 min
CrimeDramaThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth, but leaves clues in her diary that may connect her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 46+ credited

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 Ronald SandersShot by Peter SuschitzkyScored by Howard ShoreDesigned by Carol Spier

Box Office

2007 · 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

$56.1M

Budget$51.5M
Worldwide gross$56.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.3M — 31% of worldwide · International: $38.8M (69%)

Opening weekend: $547K — 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $802K — 5% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 15 theaters

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Also known as

  • Tödliche Versprechen - Eastern Promisesde
  • Les Promesses de l'ombrefr
  • La promessa dell'assassinoit

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