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Released
2010 · FILM

Tomorrow, When the War Began

Teenager Ellie Linton returns from a camping trip to find her hometown occupied by an invading force and her friends' families taken hostage, forcing her to rally the group into a guerrilla resistance before they’re captured or crushed.

Where were you when everything changed?

Directed by
Runtime
103 min
ActionAdventureDrama

Synopsis

Ellie Linton, a teenager from a coastal town in Australia, organizes a trip with her friends to a remote forest area known as "Hell." Upon returning, they discover that their town has been occupied by an enemy force, with their loved ones taken captive. When the invaders become aware of Ellie and her friends' return, the group unites to evade capture and take action against the unknown enemy.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Marcus D ArcyShot by Ben NottScored by Reinhold HeilDesigned by Robert Webb

Box Office

2010 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$16.5M

Budget$27.0M
Worldwide gross$16.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Tomorrow, When the War Begande
  • Mañana, cuando la guerra empiecees
  • Demain, quand la guerre a commencéfr
  • Il domani che verràit
  • Il domani che verrà - The Tomorrow Seriesit

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