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Southpaw Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams Movie HD

Southpaw(2015)
Released
2015 · FILM

Southpaw

A battle‑scarred champion must decide whether to risk everything in a high‑stakes showdown with a hungry upstart, or walk away to protect his family and legacy.

“Believe in hope.”

Directed by
Antoine Fuqua
Written by
Kurt Sutter
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
124 min
ActionDramaSport
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Billy "The Great" Hope is the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, enjoying a successful career, a loving family, and a luxurious lifestyle. His life takes a dramatic turn when tragedy strikes, leading to the loss of his family, home, and manager. During his lowest point, he is aided by Tick Willis, a former boxer who trains the city's top amateur fighters. As Hope struggles to rebuild his life, he fights to regain the trust of those he cares about most.

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How many hands made this film

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 John RefouaShot by Mauro FioreScored by James HornerDesigned by Derek R Hill

Box Office

2015 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.1× 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

$91.7M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$91.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $52.4M — 57% of worldwide · International: $39.3M (43%)

Opening weekend: $16.7M — 32% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $24.1M — 46% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,772 theaters

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Also known as

  • Southpawde
  • La Rage au ventrefr
  • Southpaw - L'ultima sfidait

Companies

ProductionEscape Artists, Hill District Media, Riche Productions

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