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2017 · FILM

The Foreigner

Quan, a war-hardened Chinese-Vietnamese-British veteran and restaurant owner, embarks on a dangerous personal mission to avenge his daughter's death by tracking down IRA-linked terrorists, defying police and political leaders in a high-stakes cross-border hunt.

“Never push a good man too far.”

Directed by
Martin Campbell, Richard Goodwin
Written by
David Marconi, Stephen Leather
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
113 min
ActionCrimeThriller
Streaming on
  • Fubo

Synopsis

Quan is a modest London businessman whose repressed history resurfaces in the form of a vengeful crusade after his teenage daughter, the only person he has left to love, is killed in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His determined pursuit of the terrorists results in a tense game of cat and mouse with a British government official, whose own history may contain the key to uncovering the identities of the elusive perpetrators.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 333+ 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 Angela M CatanzaroShot by David TattersallScored by Cliff MartinezDesigned by Alex CameronSound by Gareth JohnCostumes by Alex Bovaird

Box Office

2017 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.2× 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

$145.4M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$145.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $34.4M — 24% of worldwide · International: $111.0M (76%)

Opening weekend: $13.1M — 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $17.4M — 51% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,515 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • The Foreignerde
  • The Foreigner – Rache für meine Tochterde
  • El implacablees
  • (Bulgarian)Чужденецът
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • ChinaSep 24, 2017
  • MalaysiaSep 28, 2017
  • IndonesiaSep 29, 2017

Companies

ProductionSTX Entertainment, Sparkle Roll Media, Wanda Media Co.

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