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Released
1988 · FILM

Moonwalker

A legendary pop icon discovers his music can manifest fantastical worlds, and must use the power of his songs to safeguard those realms from an encroaching darkness.

“A movie like no other.”

Directed by
Jerry Kramer, Jim Blashfield
Written by
Michael Jackson, David Newman
Runtime
93 min
ActionCrimeFantasy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

This fantastical film, inspired by the music of Michael Jackson, presents imaginative interpretations of hit songs from his iconic 1987 album *Bad*.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 31

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 Dale BeldinShot by Thomas E AckermanScored by Bruce BroughtonDesigned by Bryan Jones

Box Office

1988 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.0× 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

$67.0M

Budget$22.0M
Worldwide gross$67.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Michael Jackson - Moonwalkerde

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