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Released
1997 · FILM

Volcano

When a sudden fissure erupts a volcano beneath Los Angeles, an emergency management director and a skeptical geologist must race against molten disaster to divert the lava before it engulfs the city.

“The coast is toast.”

Directed by
Mick Jackson, Jodi Ehrlich
Written by
Jerome Armstrong, Billy Ray
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
104 min
ActionDramaSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

An earthquake disrupts a quiet morning in Los Angeles, creating a fissure that opens deep into the earth and allows lava to rise to the surface. As a volcano begins to form within the La Brea Tar Pits, the city's emergency management director collaborates with a geologist to mobilize all available resources in an effort to prevent the volcano from destroying Los Angeles.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 331+ 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 Don BrochuShot by Theo Van De SandeScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by Jackson De GoviaSound by Tom Bellfort Nm0068938Costumes by Kirsten EverbergVFX by Mat Beck

Box Office

1997 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× 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

$122.8M

Budget$90.0M
Worldwide gross$122.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $49.3M — 40% of worldwide · International: $73.5M (60%)

Opening weekend: $14.6M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $18.3M — 37% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,774 theaters

Also known as

  • Volcanode
  • Vulcano - Los Angeles 1997it
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United StatesApr 15, 1997
  • PhilippinesApr 23, 1997
  • ChileApr 24, 1997
  • CanadaApr 25, 1997

Companies

Production20th Century Fox, Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions, Moritz Original, Fox 2000 Pictures, Sprockets Music
Distribution20th Century Fox, Hispano Foxfilms S.A.E.
Special effectsVIFX, Light Matters Inc., POP Film, Digiscope, Digital Magic Company
Other companies20th Century Fox Studios, American Humane Association, BT Industrial Supply, Beverly Center, Los Angeles, CNN

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