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Released
2020 · FILM

Tesla

Nikola Tesla, a visionary inventor on the brink of a breakthrough in wireless energy, battles corporate greed and personal demons to change the world in this electrifying biographical drama.

My achievements and conquests will be evaluated in the future

Runtime
102 min
BiographyDrama

Synopsis

The story follows the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla as he seeks to transcend entrenched technology, including his own previous work, by pioneering a system of wireless energy with the potential to change the world.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Kathryn J SchubertShot by Doug DurantScored by John PaesanoDesigned by Becca Bloom

Box Office

2020 · 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

$459K

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$459K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $61K

Peak 108 theaters

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