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Released
2001 · FILM

The Last Castle

A disgraced general imprisoned in a high‑security military penitentiary rallies 1,200 inmates to seize control of the facility and expose a corrupt warden before his rebellion is crushed.

A Castle Can Only Have One King

Directed by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
131 min
ActionDramaThriller

Synopsis

A court-martialed general unites 1200 inmates in a rebellion against the system that imprisoned him.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 53+ 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 Michael JablowShot by Shelly JohnsonScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Kirk M Petruccelli

Box Office

2001 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$27.6M

Budget$72.0M
Worldwide gross$27.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $18.2M 66% of worldwide · International: $9.4M (34%)

Opening weekend: $7.1M 39% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $9.3M51% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,262 theaters

Also known as

  • Die letzte Festungde
  • The Castleen
  • Untitled Rod lurie Projekten
  • Le Dernier Châteaufr
  • Il castelloit

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