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Released
2015 · FILM

We Are Your Friends

A hungry young DJ fights to drop the hit that will launch his career while navigating a magnetic mentorship that threatens both his ambition and his heart.

“The world is yours.”

Directed by
Max Joseph
Written by
Max Joseph, Meaghan Oppenheimer
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
96 min
DramaMusicRomance

Synopsis

Young Cole Carter dreams of making it big as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights with friends and working on the one track he hopes will set the world on fire. His opportunity arrives when he meets James Reed, a charismatic DJ who takes the 23-year-old under his wing. Soon, Cole's seemingly straightforward path to success becomes complicated as he begins to develop feelings for his mentor.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 82+ 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 DilibertoShot by Brett PawlakScored by Matthew SimpsonDesigned by Maya Sigel

Box Office

2015 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.9× 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

$11.1M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$11.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $2.5M

Peak 2,333 theaters

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