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Released
1992 · FILM

Newsies

A scrappy New York newsboy rallies his fellow street sellers to demand a living wage, only to clash with powerful newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer and risk losing everything they’ve earned.

“A Thousand Voices. A Single Dream.”

Directed by
Kenny Ortega
Written by
Bob Tzudiker, Noni White
Runtime
121 min
DramaFamilyHistory
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

A week in the life of exploited child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer machine.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 78+ 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 William H ReynoldsShot by Andrew LaszloScored by J A C RedfordDesigned by William Sandell

Box Office

1992 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$2.8M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$2.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.2M — 44% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.8M — 63% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,223 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Zeitungsjungende
  • Newsies – Die Zeitungsjungende
  • The News Boysen
  • Gli strilloniit

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