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The Big Short(2015)
Released
2015 · FILM

The Big Short

A brilliant but ostracized hedge fund manager bets everything on his prediction that the U.S. housing market will implode, battling skeptical banks and mounting premiums to expose a financial catastrophe before it destroys his career and investors alike.

“This is a true story.”

Directed by
Adam Mckay, Adam Mckay Nm0570912
Written by
Charles Randolph, Adam Mckay
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
130 min
BiographyComedyDrama

Synopsis

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 392+ 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 Hank CorwinShot by Barry AckroydScored by Nicholas BritellDesigned by Clayton HartleySound by Anna BehlmerCostumes by Susan MathesonStunts by Chris J FanguyVFX by Richard Bluff

Box Office

2015 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.8× 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

$133.3M

Budget$28.0M
Worldwide gross$133.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $70.3M — 53% of worldwide · International: $63.1M (47%)

Opening weekend: $706K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $941K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 8 theaters

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Also known as

  • La gran apuestaes
  • The Big Short : Le Casse du sièclefr
  • La grande scommessait
  • (Bulgarian)Големият залог
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United StatesNov 12, 2015
  • United Arab EmiratesDec 16, 2015
  • CanadaDec 23, 2015
  • FranceDec 23, 2015

Companies

ProductionParamount Pictures, Regency Enterprises, Plan B Entertainment

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