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Released
2016 · FILM

The Mermaid

Half Fish, Half Human, 100% Assassin.

Directed by
Runtime
94 min
Language
ZH
ComedyDramaFantasy

Synopsis

When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from a bigger danger.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Ka Fai CheungShot by Sung Fai ChoiScored by Fuhua HuangDesigned by Bruce Yu

Box Office

2016 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.1× 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

$553.8M

Budget$60.7M
Worldwide gross$553.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $3.2M 1% of worldwide · International: $550.6M (99%)

Opening weekend: $985K 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $1.3M42% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 35 theaters

Also known as

  • The Mermaidde
  • The Mermaiden
  • La Sirenaes

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