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Released
2017 · FILM

The Snowman

Detective Harry Hole races against a chilling winter deadline to unmask a sadistic serial killer who leaves ominous snowmen at each crime scene, before the next frozen victim disappears forever.

“Soon the first snow will fall, and the hunt for a killer begins.”

Directed by
Tomas Alfredson, Grant Butler
Written by
Jo Nesb, Peter Straughan
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
119 min
CrimeDramaHorror
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 577+ 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 Thelma SchoonmakerShot by Dion BeebeScored by Marco BeltramiDesigned by Maria DjurkovicSound by Mike DowsonCostumes by Julian DayStunts by Paul HerbertVFX by Nicholas Bennett

Box Office

2017 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× 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

$43.2M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$43.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $6.7M — 16% of worldwide · International: $36.5M (84%)

Opening weekend: $3.4M — 50% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.6M — 68% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,812 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Schneemannde
  • Schneemannde
  • Le Bonhomme de neigefr
  • L'uomo di neveit

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