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Poor Things(2023)
Released
2023 · FILM

Poor Things

A brilliant but disillusioned medical student in an alternate Victorian London must navigate love and morality when a mad scientist implants a fetus’s mind into the body of a dead woman, forcing him to decide whether to protect her fragile humanity or succumb to the dangerous passions she awakens.

“She’s nothing like you’ve ever seen.”

Directed by
Yorgos Lanthimos, Balint Megyeri
Written by
Tony Mcnamara, Alasdair Gray
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
141 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

A young woman, brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, embarks on a whirlwind adventure across the continents with a lawyer. Free from the prejudices of her time, she becomes increasingly steadfast in her purpose to advocate for equality and liberation.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 278+ 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 Yorgos MavropsaridisShot by Robbie RyanScored by Jerskin FendrixDesigned by Shona HeathSound by Johnnie BurnCostumes by Holly WaddingtonStunts by Ildiko SzucsVFX by Tallulah Baker

Box Office

2023 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.4× 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

$117.6M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$117.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $34.6M — 29% of worldwide · International: $83.1M (71%)

Opening weekend: $661K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $947K — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 9 theaters

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Also known as

  • Pobres criaturases
  • Pauvres Créaturesfr
  • Povere creature!it
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • ItalySep 1, 2023
  • United StatesSep 2, 2023
  • HungarySep 8, 2023
  • FinlandSep 21, 2023
  • SwitzerlandSep 28, 2023

Companies

ProductionElement Pictures, Film4, Fruit Tree

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