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Released
2000 · FILM

The Art of War

When covert operative Neil Shaw is framed for assassinating a UN ambassador, he goes rogue to expose a terrorist plot that could ignite World War III on the eve of a historic summit.

“Do you know who your enemy is?”

Directed by
Christian Duguay
Written by
Wayne Beach, Simon Barry
Runtime
117 min
ActionAdventureCrime

Synopsis

Neil Shaw is both agent and weapon—a critical line of defense for the Secretary General of the United Nations. He does not even officially exist. As an international security expert, he must uncover an international plot in which ruthless terrorists threaten to bring down the United Nations on the eve of an historic summit with China. A mysterious chain of events leads to the murder of the Chinese U.N. Ambassador, and the terrorists frame Neil Shaw, the one man they believe can stop them. Accused of the crime, Shaw goes underground—in effect, vanishing from his own life—as he tries to stop what could become World War III.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 30

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 Michel ArcandShot by Pierre GillScored by Normand CorbeilDesigned by Anne Pritchard

Box Office

2000 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$30.2M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$30.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $10.4M — 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $13.8M — 46% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,630 theaters

Also known as

  • Art of Warde
  • El arte de la guerraes
  • L'Art de la guerrefr
  • L'arte della guerrait

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