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Released
1992 · FILM

Universal Soldier

A resurrected Vietnam veteran turned into a high‑tech super‑soldier must battle his own programmed counterpart to expose a secret military project before it creates unstoppable killing machines.

“Almost human. Almost perfect. Almost under control.”

Directed by
Roland Emmerich, Vic Armstrong
Written by
Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
102 min
ActionSci-Fi

Synopsis

A U.S. soldier who died during the Vietnam War is brought back to life 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all traces of the soldier's original identity, the project is abandoned.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 245+ 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 Michael J DuthieShot by Karl Walter LindenlaubScored by Christopher FrankeDesigned by Holger GrossSound by David ApplebyCostumes by Theda DeramusStunts by Vic Armstrong

Box Office

1992 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.2× 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

$119.2M

Budget$23.0M
Worldwide gross$119.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $36.3M — 30% of worldwide · International: $82.9M (70%)

Opening weekend: $10.1M — 28% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $14.5M — 40% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,916 theaters

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Versions & cuts

  • heavily cut, TV· 84 min

Also known as

  • Universal Soldierde
  • Soldado Universales
  • I nuovi eroiit
  • (English)Universal Soldier
  • (Bulgarian)Универсален войник
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesJul 7, 1992
  • CanadaJul 10, 1992
  • United KingdomJul 24, 1992

Companies

ProductionMario Kassar Productions, StudioCanal, IndieProd Company Productions, Centropolis Film Productions, Alliance Films
DistributionTriStar Pictures, Columbia TriStar Films
Special effectsCinema Research, Spectrum Effects, Spectrum FX
Other companiesFilm House, The Miracle Shop, Costume Collection, Modul, Dennis Davidson Associates

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