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Released
2016 · FILM

Elvis & Nixon

Elvis Presley storms the White House demanding a badge from President Nixon, sparking a wildly comic clash of ego and politics as the King fights to legitimize his drug‑war ambitions before the meeting ends in chaos.

On December 21st, 1970, two of America's greatest recording artists met for the first time.

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Runtime
86 min
ComedyHistory

Synopsis

In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley arrived at the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Sabine HoffmanShot by Terry StaceyScored by Edward ShearmurDesigned by Mara Lepere Schloop

Box Office

2016 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$1.1M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$1.1M
break-even (2.5×)

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