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Released
2016 · FILM

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

A groundbreaking documentary directed by Ron Howard chronicles The Beatles' meteoric rise and electrifying live performances from 1962 to 1966, capturing their journey from Liverpool's Cavern Club to their final concert in San Francisco.

The band you know. The story you don't.

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Runtime
106 min
DocumentaryHistoryMusic

Synopsis

The Beatles stormed through Europe

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Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Paul CrowderShot by Caleb DeschanelScored by Ric Markmann

Box Office

2016 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 2456760× 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

$12.3M

Budget$5
Worldwide gross$12.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Peak 85 theaters

Also known as

  • The Beatles: Eight Days a Weeken
  • The Beatlesit

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