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Released
2016 · FILM

The Shallows

A grieving med student travels to a remote Mexican beach to surf and find closure, but when she discovers a dead humpback whale, she must confront her family's secrets and decide whether to abandon her medical dreams or fight for a future she no longer believes in.

“What was once in the deep is now in the shallows.”

Directed by
Jaume Collet Serra, Michael Bate
Written by
Anthony Jaswinski
Rated
FSK · FSK 12
Runtime
86 min
DramaHorrorThriller
Streaming on
  • Peacock

Synopsis

While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy enters the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Although she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, her survival depends on her ingenuity, resourcefulness and fortitude.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 211+ 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 Joel NegronShot by Flavio LabianoScored by Marco BeltramiDesigned by Hugh BateupSound by Paul BrincatCostumes by Kym BarrettVFX by Scott E Anderson

Box Office

2016 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.0× 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

$119.1M

Budget$17.0M
Worldwide gross$119.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $55.1M — 46% of worldwide · International: $64.0M (54%)

Opening weekend: $16.8M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $26.3M — 48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,962 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • The Shallows - Gefahr aus der Tiefede
  • Instinct de surviefr
  • Instinct de survie - The shallowsfr
  • Paradise Beach - Dentro l'incuboit
  • (English)The Shallows
  • (Bulgarian)Опасни води
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesJun 21, 2016
  • CanadaJun 24, 2016
  • ItalyJun 30, 2016

Companies

ProductionColumbia Pictures, Weimaraner Republic Pictures, Ombra Films

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