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Released
2015 · FILM

The 33

A determined Chilean miner leads his fellow 32 captives in a desperate fight for survival as they race against dwindling supplies and mounting pressure to escape the collapsed San José Mine before time runs out.

Hope Runs Deep

Directed by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
120 min
BiographyDramaHistory

Synopsis

Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile, which left 33 miners trapped underground for 69 days.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

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 Michael TronickShot by Checco VareseScored by James HornerDesigned by Marco Niro

Box Office

2015 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$28.0M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$28.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $12.2M 44% of worldwide · International: $15.7M (56%)

Opening weekend: $7.7M 63% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.7M63% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,452 theaters

Also known as

  • 69 Tage Hoffnungde
  • Los 33es
  • Les 33fr

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