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Wanted(2008)
Released
2008 · FILM

Wanted

A meek office worker discovers his panic attacks are a hidden superpower just as a vengeful assassin hunts him, forcing him to choose between fleeing the deadly underworld or unleashing his newfound strength to survive.

“Choose your destiny.”

Directed by
Timur Bekmambetov
Written by
Michael Brandt, Derek Haas
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
110 min
ActionCrimeThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Wesley Gibson is a doormat office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father—whom Wesley never knew—belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 35

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 David BrennerShot by Mitchell AmundsenScored by Danny ElfmanDesigned by John Myhre

Box Office

2008 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.6× 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

$342.5M

Budget$75.0M
Worldwide gross$342.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $134.5M — 39% of worldwide · International: $208.0M (61%)

Opening weekend: $50.9M — 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $70.1M — 52% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,175 theaters

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Also known as

  • Wantedde
  • Choisis ton destinfr
  • Wanted : Choisis ton destinfr
  • Wanted - Scegli il tuo destinoit

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