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Released
1982 · FILM

Megaforce

“There has never been a superhero like ACE HUNTER!”

Directed by
Hal Needham
Written by
Bob Kachler, James Whittaker
Runtime
99 min
ActionSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

MegaForce is an elite multinational military unit that undertakes missions individual governments decline to perform. When the peaceful Republic of Sardun faces a threat from its more aggressive neighbor, Major Zara and General Byrne‑White request assistance from Ace Hunter and MegaForce.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Patrick RoarkShot by Michael C ButlerScored by Jerrold ImmelDesigned by Joel Schiller

Box Office

1982 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$5.7M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$5.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.4M — 41% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.5M — 62% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,193 theaters

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