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The Substance(2024)
Released
2024 · FILM

The Substance

A fading Hollywood icon desperate to reclaim her spotlight ingests a mysterious serum that splits her into two bodies, forcing her to alternate consciousness every week while racing against a deadly countdown to keep both selves alive and her career thriving.

“Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself?”

Directed by
Coralie Fargeat
Written by
Coralie Fargeat
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
141 min
DramaHorrorSci-Fi

Synopsis

A fading celebrity turns to a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily produces a younger, improved version of herself.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 128+ 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 Jerome EltabetShot by Benjamin KracunScored by RaffertieDesigned by Stanislas Reydellet

Box Office

2024 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.4× 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

$77.3M

Budget$17.5M
Worldwide gross$77.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.6M — 23% of worldwide · International: $59.7M (77%)

Opening weekend: $3.2M — 18% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.1M — 29% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,949 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • La Sustanciaes

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