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Released
2001 · FILM

Rock Star

A tribute band singer gets his shot when he's chosen to replace the legendary lead vocalist of the heavy metal band he's idolized his whole life, but rising to fame comes with a price.

“The story of a wanna be who got to be.”

Directed by
Stephen Herek
Written by
John Stockwell
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
105 min
DramaMusic
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Izzy, an aspiring rock star who leads a Pennsylvania-based tribute band, is devastated when his bandmates expel him from the group he started. His fortunes begin to change when he is invited to join Steel Dragon, the heavy metal band he has long admired and imitated. The film is loosely based on the true story of the band Judas Priest.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Trudy ShipShot by Ueli SteigerScored by Trevor RabinDesigned by Mayne Berke

Box Office

2001 · 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

$19.3M

Budget$57.0M
Worldwide gross$19.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.0M — 88% of worldwide · International: $2.3M (12%)

Opening weekend: $6.0M — 35% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.7M — 45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,525 theaters

Also known as

  • Rockstares

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