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Released
1997 · FILM

Event Horizon

A rescue crew races to a mysteriously reappeared starship orbiting Neptune, only to confront the nightmarish consequences of its experimental gravity drive before they become its next victims.

“Infinite space. Infinite terror.”

Directed by
Paul W S Anderson
Written by
Philip Eisner
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
96 min
HorrorSci-FiThriller

Synopsis

A rescue crew is assigned to investigate the mysterious return of a spaceship that had been missing for seven years.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 149+ 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 Martin HunterShot by Adrian BiddleScored by Michael KamenDesigned by Joseph Bennett

Box Office

1997 · 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

$26.7M

Budget$60.0M
Worldwide gross$26.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $26.7M — 100% of worldwide · International: $27K (0%)

Opening weekend: $9.5M — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $13.4M — 50% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,311 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Event Horizon - Am Rande des Universumsde
  • Event Horizon, le vaisseau de l'au-delàfr
  • Punto di non ritornoit

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