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Up in the Air(2009)
Released
2009 · FILM

Up in the Air

A globe‑trotting layoff consultant chasing ten million frequent‑flyer miles must confront a cold, video‑based downsizing system that threatens to strip his work of humanity—just as he’s falling for a fellow jet‑setter whose own ambitions could cost them both everything.

“The story of a man ready to make a connection.”

Directed by
Jason Reitman
Written by
Walter Kirn, Jason Reitman
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
109 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who leads a life spent primarily in airplanes, airports, and hotels. As he is on the verge of achieving a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he encounters a woman who prompts him to reconsider the transient nature of his lifestyle.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 30

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 Dana E GlaubermanShot by Eric SteelbergScored by Rolfe KentDesigned by Steve Saklad

Box Office

2009 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.7× 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

$166.8M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$166.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $83.8M — 50% of worldwide · International: $83.0M (50%)

Opening weekend: $1.2M — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.6M — 2% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 15 theaters

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Also known as

  • Up in the Airde
  • Up in the Air - Wie im Flugde
  • In the Airfr
  • Tra le nuvoleit

Production & Distribution

Production companies
Paramount PicturesCold Spring PicturesDW Studios

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