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Released
1978 · FILM

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

“A splendid time is guaranteed for all!”

Directed by
Michael Schultz
Written by
Henry Edwards, Tom O Horgan
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
111 min
AdventureComedyFantasy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A small‑town band achieves commercial success but becomes disconnected from its origins as it becomes entangled in the larger mechanisms of the music industry. The group then works to stop a scheme that threatens to destroy their hometown. The musical is constructed around songs by The Beatles and incorporates performances by well‑known acts such as Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 144+ 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 Christopher HolmesShot by Owen RoizmanDesigned by Brian Eatwell

Box Office

1978 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$20.4M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$20.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Banden

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