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Released
2009 · FILM

Ninja Assassin

A renegade ninja fights to break free from the lethal orphanage that raised him, only to face a relentless clan assassin determined to keep him under its deadly control.

“Fear not the weapon, but the hand that wields it.”

Directed by
James Mcteigue
Written by
Matthew Sand, J Michael Straczynski
Rated
MPA · R
Format
Shot on 35mm film
Runtime
99 min
ActionThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A young ninja abandons the orphanage that raised him, resulting in a conflict with another ninja from the same clan.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 216+ 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 Giancarlo GanzianoShot by Karl Walter LindenlaubScored by Ilan EshkeriDesigned by Graham Grace Walker

Box Office

2009 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× 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

$61.6M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$61.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $38.1M — 62% of worldwide · International: $23.5M (38%)

Opening weekend: $7.9M — 21% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.9M — 21% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,503 theaters

Also known as

  • Ninja Assassinde

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