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Released
1990 · FILM

Spaced Invaders

“For years, science has speculated on the existence of intelligent life in space... Now, there is living proof there is no such thing.”

Directed by
Patrick Read Johnson
Written by
Patrick Read Johnson, Scott Lawrence Alexander
Runtime
100 min
AdventureComedySci-Fi

Synopsis

A crew of Martians overhears a radio broadcast of Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” from Earth and, believing the Martian fleet is attacking the planet, lands their damaged ship in a small Midwestern town. The landing occurs on Halloween, leading the townspeople to mistake the extraterrestrials for trick‑or‑treaters, after which comedic situations arise as the Martians attempt to be taken seriously.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Seth GavenShot by James L CarterScored by David E RussoDesigned by Anton Tremblay

Box Office

1990 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.1× 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

$15.4M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$15.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.5M — 29% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.3M — 35% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,821 theaters

Also known as

  • Martians – Ein Außerirdischer kommt selten alleinde
  • Les Martiens !fr

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