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Released
2020 · FILM

The Turning

A newly hired governess must safeguard two orphaned siblings from unseen forces that haunt their isolated estate, forcing her to confront a terrifying reality before it consumes them all.

“Watch the children with care.”

Directed by
Floria Sigismondi
Written by
Henry James, Chad Hayes
Runtime
94 min
DramaHorrorMystery
Streaming on
  • Peacock

Synopsis

A young woman leaves her teaching position to take a job as a private tutor and governess for two children of a wealthy family. However, she soon begins to suspect that there is more to the household than appears on the surface.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Duwayne DunhamShot by David UngaroScored by Nathan BarrDesigned by Paki Smith

Box Office

2020 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× 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

$19.4M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$19.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $15.5M — 80% of worldwide · International: $4.0M (20%)

Opening weekend: $7.0M — 45% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $8.7M — 56% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,571 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Besessenende
  • The Turning - Die Besessenende
  • The Turning - La casa del maleit

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