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Released
1994 · FILM

Surviving the Game

A homeless survival expert leads a group of wealthy hunters into the mountains, only to discover they're cold-blooded killers who now have him in their crosshairs.

“The Rules are Simple: Kill or Be Killed.”

Directed by
Ernest Dickerson
Written by
Eric Bernt
Runtime
96 min
ActionAdventureCrime

Synopsis

A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport and that he is their new prey.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Sam PollardShot by Bojan BazelliScored by Stewart CopelandDesigned by Christiaan Wagener

Box Office

1994 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.0× 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

$7.7M

Budget$7.4M
Worldwide gross$7.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.9M — 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.9M — 38% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,025 theaters

Also known as

  • Surviving the Game - Hetzjagd durch die Höllede
  • Surviving The Game - Tötet ihn!de
  • Tötet ihn!de
  • Survivng the Gamees
  • Que la chasse commencefr
  • Sopravvivere al giocoit

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