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Released
2002 · FILM

Empire

“Two worlds collide.”

Directed by
Franc Reyes
Written by
Franc Reyes
Runtime
99 min
CrimeDramaThriller

Synopsis

Victor Rosa, a prominent drug dealer, seeks to exit the criminal world through a major deal with a new associate who is a Wall Street stockbroker. Believing this transaction will allow him to leave on his own terms, Victor soon discovers he has been betrayed. With few options remaining, he turns to seeking revenge.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Peter C FrankShot by Kramer MorgenthauScored by Ruben BladesDesigned by Ted Glass

Box Office

2002 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.6× 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

$18.6M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$18.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.6M — 95% of worldwide · International: $991K (5%)

Opening weekend: $6.3M — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.9M — 45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 867 theaters

Also known as

  • Imperium - Zwei Welten prallen aufeinanderde

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