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Released
1981 · FILM

Outland

Marshall William T. O'Neil, a lone marshal on the sun‑less mining outpost of Io, must expose and stop a ruthless colony manager and his violent enforcers before their deadly scheme drives the workforce to suicide.

On Jupiter's moon he's the only law.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
110 min
ActionCrimeSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel confronts the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while investigating a series of worker suicides.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Stuart BairdShot by Stephen GoldblattScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Philip Harrison

Box Office

1981 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 1.0× 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

$17.4M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$17.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Outland – Planet der Verdammtende
  • Atmósfera ceroes
  • Atmosfera zeroit

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