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Released
1979 · FILM

Moonraker

James Bond races to expose a rogue billionaire’s scheme to hijack a missing space shuttle and weaponize its technology, confronting lethal assassins and high‑altitude danger before a global disaster erupts.

“Where all the other Bonds end… this one begins!”

Directed by
Lewis Gilbert
Written by
Christopher Wood
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
126 min
ActionAdventureSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

After Drax Industries

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 51+ credited

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 GlenShot by Jean TournierScored by John BarryDesigned by Ken Adam

Box Office

1979 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.2× 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

$210.3M

Budget$34.0M
Worldwide gross$210.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $70.3M — 33% of worldwide · International: $140.0M (67%)

Opening weekend: $7.1M — 10% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 788 theaters

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Also known as

  • James Bond 007: Moonraker - Streng geheimde
  • Moonraker – Streng geheimde
  • Moonraker: Operazione spazioit

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