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Passengers(2016)
Released
2016 · FILM

Passengers

A lone engineer awakens 90 years early aboard a damaged sleeper ship carrying thousands to a new world, racing to fix the vessel alone as time runs out and the AI fails to grasp the crisis.

“There is a reason they woke up.”

Directed by
Morten Tyldum, Peter Dress
Written by
Jon Spaihts
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
116 min
DramaRomanceSci-Fi

Synopsis

A spacecraft en route to a distant colony planet and carrying thousands of passengers experiences a malfunction in its sleep chambers, causing two travelers to awaken 90 years ahead of schedule.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 270+ 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 Maryann BrandonShot by Rodrigo PrietoScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by Guy Hendrix DyasSound by Phil BarrieCostumes by Jany TemimeStunts by Garrett Hammond

Box Office

2016 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.8× 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

$303.1M

Budget$110.0M
Worldwide gross$303.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $100.0M — 33% of worldwide · International: $203.1M (67%)

Opening weekend: $7.3M — 7% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.3M — 7% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,478 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Passengersde
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • United StatesDec 14, 2016
  • South KoreaDec 16, 2016
  • ChinaDec 17, 2016
  • United Arab EmiratesDec 21, 2016
  • CanadaDec 21, 2016

Companies

ProductionColumbia Pictures, LStar Capital, Village Roadshow Pictures

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