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Released
1994 · FILM

Terminal Velocity

A thrill‑seeking skydiver must join forces with a former KGB operative to prevent a ruthless Russian mob from hijacking a fortune in gold, racing against death and betrayal at 15,000 feet.

It's not the fall that kills you...

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Written by
Runtime
102 min
ActionMysteryRomance

Synopsis

A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Peck PriorShot by Oliver WoodScored by Joel McneelyDesigned by David L Snyder

Box Office

1994 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$16.5M

Budget$50.0M
Worldwide gross$16.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.5M 33% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.2M44% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,794 theaters

Also known as

  • Tödliche Geschwindigkeitde
  • Velocidad terminales

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