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Released
2018 · FILM

Holmes & Watson

Sherlock Holmes teams with Dr. John Watson to uncover the murderer inside Buckingham Palace before the culprit’s scheme escalates into a deadly attack on the nation.

“Weapons of mass deduction.”

Directed by
Etan Cohen
Written by
Etan Cohen, Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
90 min
ComedyCrimeMystery

Synopsis

Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson collaborate to investigate a perplexing murder that takes place at Buckingham Palace. Initially, the case appears straightforward, with all evidence pointing to Professor James Moriarty, the notorious criminal mastermind and long-standing adversary of the detective duo. However, as new developments and clues arise, the situation becomes increasingly complex.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Erik JessenShot by Oliver WoodScored by Mark MothersbaughDesigned by James Hambidge

Box Office

2018 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 1.0× 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

$40.5M

Budget$42.0M
Worldwide gross$40.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $30.6M — 75% of worldwide · International: $9.9M (25%)

Opening weekend: $12.4M — 41% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $12.4M — 41% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,719 theaters

Also known as

  • Holmes und Watsonde
  • Holmes and Watsonen
  • Holmes and Watsones

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