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Official Lionsgate 40th Anniversary Trailer

First Blood(1982)
Released
1982 · FILM

First Blood

A haunted Vietnam veteran drifts into a small town where an uncompromising sheriff’s brutal arrest ignites a deadly cat-and-mouse chase, forcing him to confront both his trauma and the law’s relentless pursuit.

“This time he's fighting for his life.”

Directed by
Ted Kotcheff
Written by
David Morrell, Michael Kozoll
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
93 min
ActionAdventureThriller

Synopsis

Former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, prompting him to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 51+ 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 Joan E ChapmanShot by Andrew LaszloScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Wolf Kroeger

Box Office

1982 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.3× 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

$125.2M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$125.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $47.2M — 38% of worldwide · International: $78.0M (62%)

Opening weekend: $6.6M — 14% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $9.2M — 19% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 901 theaters

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Also known as

  • Rambode
  • Rambo Ien
  • Rambo: First Blooden
  • Rambofr
  • Rambo - Le Dévastateurfr
  • Ramboit

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