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PREDATOR Official Trailer [1987]

Predator(1987)
Released
1987 · FILM

Predator

When an elite paramilitary squad led by veteran operative Dutch is sent into a Central American jungle to rescue a downed cabinet minister, they must battle guerrillas, Russian mercenaries, and a hidden extraterrestrial threat before their mission—and the world—are compromised.

“Soon the hunt will begin.”

Directed by
John Mctiernan
Written by
Jim Thomas, John Thomas
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
107 min
ActionAdventureHorror

Synopsis

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 30

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 Mark HelfrichShot by Donald McalpineScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by John Vallone

Box Office

1987 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.6× 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

$98.3M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$98.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $59.7M — 61% of worldwide · International: $38.5M (39%)

Opening weekend: $12.0M — 20% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $17.5M — 29% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,623 theaters

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Also known as

  • Predatorde
  • Alien Hunteren
  • Hunteren
  • Primevilen
  • Depredadores

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