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Released
2025 · FILM

The Amateur

A brilliant but introverted CIA codebreaker goes rogue to hunt down the terrorist cell that killed his wife, defying his superiors and risking a citywide disaster to deliver justice.

“Don't underestimate him.”

Directed by
James Hawes, Harry Ashby
Written by
Robert Littell, Ken Nolan
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
122 min
ActionThriller

Synopsis

After his life is upended by the death of his wife in a terrorist attack in London, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to act.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 843+ credited

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 Jonathan AmosShot by Martin RuheScored by Volker BertelmannDesigned by Maria DjurkovicSound by Adrian BellCostumes by Suzie HarmanStunts by Laurent DemianoffVFX by Simon Carr

Box Office

2025 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.6× 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

$96.0M

Budget$60.0M
Worldwide gross$96.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $40.8M — 42% of worldwide · International: $55.2M (58%)

Opening weekend: $14.8M — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $20.1M — 49% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,400 theaters

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  • Operazione vendettait

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