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Released
2023 · FILM

Next Goal Wins

A determined Dutch coach battles cultural clash and relentless doubt as he strives to transform America’s Samoa's hopeless soccer squad into a winning nation.

“Be happy.”

Directed by
Taika Waititi
Written by
Taika Waititi, Iain Morris
Runtime
104 min
ComedyDramaSport

Synopsis

Dutch coach Thomas Rongen takes on the challenging task of transforming the American Samoa soccer team from a group of consistent underperformers into a competitive force.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 27

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 Tom EaglesShot by Lachlan MilneScored by Michael GiacchinoDesigned by Ra Vincent

Box Office

2023 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× 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

$18.1M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$18.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $6.7M — 37% of worldwide · International: $11.3M (63%)

Opening weekend: $2.5M — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.0M — 60% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,240 theaters

Also known as

  • El peor equipo del mundoes
  • Une équipe de rêvefr
  • Chi segna vinceit

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