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The Expendables(2010)
Released
2010 · FILM

The Expendables

When elite mercenary leader Barney Ross is hired to topple a ruthless Caribbean dictator, he must rally his fractured Expendables crew and confront deadly rivals before the island’s rebellion spirals into an all‑out war.

“Choose your weapon.”

Directed by
Sylvester Stallone
Written by
Dave Callaham, Sylvester Stallone
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
103 min
ActionAdventureThriller

Synopsis

Barney Ross leads a team of mercenaries that includes knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, martial‑arts expert Yin Yang, heavy‑weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road and sniper Gunner Jensen. The group is hired by the enigmatic Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island; Barney and Lee travel to the remote location to scout their opposition and learn the true nature of the conflict affecting the city.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 64+ 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 Ken BlackwellShot by Jeffrey L KimballScored by Brian TylerDesigned by Franco Giacomo Carbone

Box Office

2010 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.4× 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

$274.5M

Budget$80.0M
Worldwide gross$274.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $103.1M — 38% of worldwide · International: $171.4M (62%)

Opening weekend: $34.8M — 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $48.4M — 47% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,270 theaters

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Also known as

  • The Expendablesde
  • The Expendables - Stahlharte Söldnerde
  • The Expendablesen
  • Los mercenarioses
  • Expendables : Unité spécialefr
  • I mercenari - The Expendablesit

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