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Released
1993 · FILM

Matinee

A charismatic showman brings his over-the-top B-movie spectacle to a small town during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, using every trick in the book to keep audiences laughing and screaming.

“Lawrence Woolsey presents the end of civilization as we know it. Make that... Proudly Presents!”

Directed by
Joe Dante
Written by
Charles S Haas, Jerico Stone
Runtime
99 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A showman brings a unique movie experience to a small coastal town, using the tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis to promote a kitschy horror extravaganza. The film blends movie effects, stage props, and actors in rubber suits, serving as a tribute to the B-movie genre.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Marshall HarveyShot by John HoraScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Steven Legler

Box Office

1993 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$9.5M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$9.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.6M — 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.3M — 45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,143 theaters

Also known as

  • Matinee - Die Horrorpremierede
  • Panic sur Florida Beachfr

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