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Released
2014 · FILM

Transcendence

A terminally‑ill scientist races against a deadly anti‑tech terrorist group to upload his consciousness into a nascent superintelligence, hoping to achieve transcendence before his humanity is lost forever.

“Yesterday, Dr. Will Caster was only human...”

Directed by
Wally Pfister
Written by
Jack Paglen
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Format
Shot on 35mm film
Runtime
119 min
DramaSci-FiThriller

Synopsis

Two prominent computer scientists pursue the objective of achieving Technological Singularity, while a radical anti-technology group seeks to stop them from developing a world in which computers surpass the capabilities of the human mind.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 272+ 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 David RosenbloomShot by Jess HallScored by Mychael DannaDesigned by Chris Seagers

Box Office

2014 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.0× 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

$103.0M

Budget$100.0M
Worldwide gross$103.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $23.0M — 22% of worldwide · International: $80.0M (78%)

Opening weekend: $10.9M — 47% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $14.4M — 62% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,455 theaters

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Also known as

  • Transcendencede
  • Transcendancefr

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