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Released
1993 · FILM

Much Ado About Nothing

Young lovers Hero and Claudio scheme to matchmake their feuding friends Benedick and Beatrice before their own wedding, but tangled egos and mistaken rumors threaten to derail both unions.

“Romance. Mischief. Seduction. Revenge. Remarkable.”

Directed by
Kenneth Branagh
Written by
William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
111 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, who are about to marry, plot to bring together Benedick and Beatrice—verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles—hoping to see them wed as well.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 128+ 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 Andrew MarcusShot by Roger LanserScored by Patrick DoyleDesigned by Tim Harvey

Box Office

1993 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× 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

$22.6M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$22.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $22.5M — 100% of worldwide · International: $51K (0%)

Opening weekend: $109K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $182K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3 theaters

Also known as

  • Viel Lärm um nichtsde
  • Mucho ruido y pocas nueceses
  • Beaucoup de bruit pour rienfr
  • Molto rumore per nullait

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