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Released
2013 · FILM

Empire State

A down‑on‑his‑luck security guard teams up with his best friend to pull off a daring armored‑car robbery, only to find the biggest cash heist in U.S. history pitted against an relentless NYPD detective determined to stop them.

“Based on a true story.”

Directed by
Dito Montiel, Urs Hirschbiegel
Written by
Adam Mazer, Paulo Defreitas Jr
Runtime
94 min
CrimeThriller

Synopsis

After failing to gain admission to the police academy, Chris Potamitis takes a job as a security guard with an armored truck company. When he casually mentions the company's weak security measures to his best friend, he is unknowingly pulled into a complex plan to steal the large sums of cash stored on-site, leading to what becomes the largest cash heist in U.S. history.

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A crew of 339+ 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 Jake PushinskyShot by Dana GonzalesScored by David WittmanDesigned by Ethan TobmanSound by David BarberCostumes by Abby O SullivanStunts by Lex D Geddings

Box Office

2013 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$3.6M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$3.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Empire Statede
  • Empire State - Die Straßen von New Yorkde

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