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Released
2019 · FILM

The Kid Who Would Be King

A teenage outcast discovers Excalibur and must rally his schoolmates—and a reluctant Merlin—to stop the dark enchantress Morgana from enslaving the world with her supernatural army.

“An army to fight. A demon to slay. A world to save. No pressure.”

Directed by
Joe Cornish
Written by
Joe Cornish
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
120 min
ActionAdventureAnimation

Synopsis

A young man named Alex discovers the mythical sword Excalibur, bringing ancient magic into a contemporary setting. He gathers both friends and former adversaries, forming a group of knights who ally with the wizard Merlin. The assembled team confronts the enchantress Morgana and her army of supernatural warriors in an effort to protect humanity.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 35

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 Jonathan AmosShot by Bill PopeScored by Damon AlbarnDesigned by Marcus Rowland

Box Office

2019 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$32.1M

Budget$59.0M
Worldwide gross$32.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $16.8M — 52% of worldwide · International: $15.4M (48%)

Opening weekend: $7.2M — 43% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $9.0M — 53% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,521 theaters

Also known as

  • Wenn du König wärstde
  • Alex, le destin d'un roifr
  • Il ragazzo che diventerà reit

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