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Released
1999 · FILM

EDtv

A down‑on‑his‑luck video store clerk signs up for a reality TV experiment hoping to turn his mundane life into fame, only to watch his personal chaos explode on screen and threaten everything he holds dear.

“The story of a nobody everybody is watching.”

Directed by
Ron Howard
Written by
Emile Gaudreault, Sylvie Bouchard
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
122 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

A video store clerk agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a television show.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

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 Daniel P HanleyShot by John SchwartzmanScored by Randy EdelmanDesigned by Michael Corenblith

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$35.2M

Budget$80.0M
Worldwide gross$35.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $22.4M — 64% of worldwide · International: $12.8M (36%)

Opening weekend: $8.3M — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $10.9M — 49% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,627 theaters

Also known as

  • Edtv - Immer auf Sendungde
  • En direct sur Edtvfr

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ProductionImagine Entertainment

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