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Released
1993 · FILM

Fire in the Sky

When a remote logging crew witnesses a mysterious UFO and their teammate vanishes, they must battle disbelief and a relentless search to uncover the truth before the forest’s secrets claim another victim.

Alien abduction. November 5, 1975. White Mountains, Northeastern Arizona.

Directed by
Runtime
109 min
BiographyDramaFantasy

Synopsis

A group of men return to town after clearing brush for the government, claiming their friend was abducted. Despite the absence of any apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no one believes their story, and his disappearance is assumed to be murder.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Steve MirkovichShot by Bill PopeScored by Mark IshamDesigned by Laurence Bennett

Box Office

1993 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× 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

$19.9M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$19.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.1M 31% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $8.3M42% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,422 theaters

Also known as

  • Feuer am Himmelde
  • Visiteurs extraterrestresfr
  • Bagliori nel buioit

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