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Released
1987 · FILM

The Living Daylights

James Bond must race against time to eliminate a ruthless new KGB chief whose covert assassination scheme threatens to ignite a full‑scale Cold War showdown.

“The new James Bond...living on the edge.”

Directed by
John Glen
Written by
Richard Maibaum, Michael G Wilson
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
130 min
ActionAdventureThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

When a defected Russian general exposes a plan to assassinate foreign intelligence agents, James Bond is tasked with a covert mission to eliminate the new leader of the KGB, in an effort to avert a worsening of relations between the Soviet Union and the West.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 56+ 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 Peter DaviesShot by Alec MillsScored by John BarryDesigned by Peter Lamont

Box Office

1987 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.8× 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

$191.2M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$191.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $51.2M — 27% of worldwide · International: $140.0M (73%)

Opening weekend: $11.1M — 22% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $17.1M — 33% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,728 theaters

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Also known as

  • Der Hauch des Todesde
  • James Bond 007 - Der Hauch des Todesde
  • Tuer n'est pas jouerfr
  • 007 - Zona pericoloit

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