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Hercules(1997)
Released
1997 · FILM

Hercules

Teenage demigod Hercules must uncover his true heritage and thwart Hades’ plot to unleash the Titans during a celestial alignment, before his weakened mortality costs him the power to save Olympus.

“The man. The myth. The movie.”

Directed by
Richard Slapczynski, Ron Clements
Written by
Roz Phillips, Roddy Lee
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
93 min
ActionAdventureAnimation
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

A young mortal named Hercules, endowed with superhuman strength, embarks on a journey to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Accompanied by his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is deceived by the comically hot-tempered villain Hades.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 57+ 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 Tom NicholsScored by Garry HardmanDesigned by Gerald Scarfe

Box Office

1997 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.0× 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

$252.7M

Budget$85.0M
Worldwide gross$252.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $99.1M — 39% of worldwide · International: $153.6M (61%)

Opening weekend: $250K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $646K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1 theaters

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Also known as

  • Hérculeses

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