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Released
2006 · FILM

Idlewild

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
121 min
CrimeDramaMusical

Synopsis

Percival, a reserved piano player, and Rooster, his charismatic lead performer and manager, work to protect their speakeasy in the Prohibition-era South from gangsters seeking to take control of it.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Anne GoursaudShot by Pascal RabaudScored by John DebneyDesigned by Charles William Breen

Box Office

2006 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$12.6M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$12.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $7.1M

Peak 973 theaters

Also known as

  • Idlewildde
  • Ritmo salvajees

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