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Released
2018 · FILM

Peterloo

Directed by
Mike Leigh
Written by
Mike Leigh
Runtime
154 min
DramaHistory
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A historical drama depicting the events of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, in which a peaceful pro-democracy gathering at St Peter’s Field in Manchester escalated into one of the most violent and infamous incidents in British history. The massacre occurred when government forces attacked a crowd of more than 60,000 people who had assembled to call for political reform and to protest against increasing poverty.

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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 Jon GregoryShot by Dick PopeScored by Gary YershonDesigned by Suzie Davies

Box Office

2018 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$2.2M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$2.2M
break-even (2.5×)

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