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Released
1989 · FILM

Leviathan

A deep‑sea mining crew retrieves a mysterious Soviet cargo from the ocean floor, only to unleash a deadly genetic mutant that stalks them one by one as they fight desperately to survive.

“How long can you hold your breath?”

Directed by
George P Cosmatos
Written by
David Webb Peoples, Jeb Stuart
Runtime
98 min
AdventureHorrorMystery

Synopsis

A group of underwater deep-sea miners discovers a Soviet wreck and retrieve a dangerous cargo, bringing it back to their base on the ocean floor, which leads to horrifying consequences. The crew of the mining base must then fight to survive as a genetic mutation hunts them down one by one.

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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 John F BurnettShot by Alex ThomsonScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Ron Cobb

Box Office

1989 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$15.7M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$15.7M
break-even (2.5×)

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