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Snowpiercer(2013)
Released
2013 · FILM

Snowpiercer

A desperate rebel leads a revolt on the last train carrying humanity through an icy apocalypse, fighting to break the chains of class and uncover the truth behind their frozen world.

“Fight your way to the front.”

Directed by
Bong Joon Ho
Written by
Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
127 min
Language
KO
ActionSci-FiThriller

Synopsis

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment results in the near extinction of life on Earth, a rigid class system emerges aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that circumnavigates the globe powered by a perpetual-motion engine.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 60+ 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 Kim Chang JuShot by Hong Kyung PyoScored by Marco BeltramiDesigned by Ondrej Nekvasil

Box Office

2013 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.2× 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

$86.8M

Budget$39.2M
Worldwide gross$86.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $4.6M — 5% of worldwide · International: $82.2M (95%)

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Also known as

  • Snowpiercerde
  • Snow Pierceren
  • Le Transperceneigefr
  • Snowpiercer, le transperceneigefr

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