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Released
1999 · FILM

Pushing Tin

Cocky air traffic controller Nick Falzone battles rival Russell Bell for supremacy in the high‑stakes skyways, where every ego‑driven gamble could spell disaster for countless lives.

A comedy about losing control

Directed by
Runtime
124 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Two air traffic controllers who enjoy taking risks compete with one another across multiple dimensions.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Gale TattersallScored by Anne DudleyDesigned by Bruno Rubeo

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$8.4M

Budget$33.0M
Worldwide gross$8.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.6M 42% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.6M55% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,283 theaters

Also known as

  • Pushing Tin - Turbulenzen und andere Katastrophende
  • Turbulenzen – und andere Katastrophende
  • Les Aiguilleursfr
  • Falso tracciatoit

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