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Released
1978 · FILM

The Wiz

Shy Harlem teacher Dorothy Gale is whisked into the dazzling urban fantasy of Oz and must navigate a treacherous quest with eccentric allies to find the Wiz—and a way back home before the Wicked Witch destroys her chance at return.

“The wiz! The stars! The music! Wow!”

Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Written by
L Frank Baum, William F Brown
Runtime
134 min
AdventureFamilyFantasy

Synopsis

Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magical land of Oz, where she begins a journey to find her way back home.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Dede AllenShot by Oswald MorrisScored by Charlie SmallsDesigned by Tony Walton

Box Office

1978 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$21.0M

Budget$24.0M
Worldwide gross$21.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • The Wiz - Das zauberhafte Landde
  • El magoes

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