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Released
1988 · FILM

Tapeheads

“A FAST FORWARD MUSIC COMEDY.”

Directed by
Bill Fishman
Written by
Bill Fishman, Pater Mccarthy
Runtime
93 min
ComedyMusic

Synopsis

Ivan and Josh are former security guards who share an interest in music videos. After losing their jobs and facing limited employment options, they establish a music video production company. While learning the industry's operations in Los Angeles, they receive assistance from Mo Fuzz, which helps them become sought after. Their efforts encounter difficulties when they attempt to revive the career of the R&B duo known as the Swanky Modes.

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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 Mondo JenkinsShot by Bojan BazelliScored by FishboneDesigned by Catherine Hardwicke

Box Office

1988 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$344K

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$344K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $177K

Peak 138 theaters

Also known as

  • Tapeheads - Verrückt auf Videode
  • No me grites que ya te veoes

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