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Released
2012 · FILM

The Cold Light of Day

A reckless Wall Street trader must outwit ruthless foreign operatives and retrieve a stolen briefcase before they kill his kidnapped family.

Instinct is his greatest weapon.

Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
93 min
ActionAdventureThriller

Synopsis

A young Wall Street trader finds his family kidnapped during a sailing trip in Spain, leading him to confront the individuals responsible—intelligence agents seeking to recover a mysterious briefcase.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 39

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 Valerio BonelliShot by Remi AdefarasinScored by Lucas VidalDesigned by Benjamin Fernandez

Box Office

2012 · 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

$16.9M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$16.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $2.4M

Peak 1,511 theaters

Also known as

  • The Cold Light of Dayde
  • La fría luz del díaes
  • Sans issuefr
  • La fredda luce del giornoit

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