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Released
1998 · FILM

Knock Off

A top fashion designer teams up with his CIA operative partner to halt a terrorist plot that hides explosives inside counterfeit jeans, racing against the chaotic 1997 Hong Kong handover before the deadly cargo reaches the streets.

“There is no substitute.”

Directed by
Hark Tsui
Written by
Steven E De Souza
Runtime
91 min
ActionCrimeThriller
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfeit jeans during the handover of Hong Kong.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Craig HenighanShot by Arthur WongScored by Ron MaelDesigned by Wah Sang Leung

Box Office

1998 · 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

$44.0M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$44.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $10.3M — 23% of worldwide · International: $33.7M (77%)

Opening weekend: $6.4M — 62% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $6.4M — 62% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,800 theaters

Also known as

  • Knock Offde
  • Piège à Hong Kongfr
  • Hong Kong colpo su colpoit

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