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Released
2020 · FILM

The New Mutants

A group of teenage mutants must master their emerging abilities and confront a nightmarish secret facility before it destroys them all.

“There is something new to fear.”

Directed by
Josh Boone, Katie Valovcin
Written by
Josh Boone, Knate Lee
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
94 min
ActionHorrorMystery
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

Five young mutants who are beginning to discover their powers while being held involuntarily in a secret facility strive to flee from their past transgressions and secure their own safety.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 887+ 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 Andrew BucklandShot by Peter DemingScored by Mark SnowDesigned by Molly HughesSound by Steve CantamessaCostumes by Leesa EvansStunts by Walter GarciaVFX by Anton Agerbo

Box Office

2020 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$49.2M

Budget$67.0M
Worldwide gross$49.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $23.9M — 49% of worldwide · International: $25.3M (51%)

Opening weekend: $7.0M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $8.8M — 37% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,412 theaters

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Also known as

  • X-Men: New Mutantsde
  • X-Men: The New Mutantsen
  • X-Men: Nuevos mutanteses
  • Les Nouveaux Mutantsfr
  • (Bosnian)Novi Mutanti
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • BelgiumAug 26, 2020
  • SpainAug 26, 2020
  • FranceAug 26, 2020
  • PolandAug 26, 2020
  • PortugalAug 26, 2020

Companies

ProductionMarvel Entertainment, Kinberg Genre, 20th Century Studios, Sunswept Entertainment, TSG Entertainment
Distribution20th Century Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International
Special effectsMoving Picture Company (MPC), Double Negative (DNEG), Zero VFX, Cantina Creative, Method Studios
Other companies20th Century Fox, 20th Century Studios Post, BT Industrial Supply, 20th Century Fox Television, American Humane Association

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