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Released
2019 · FILM

What Men Want

A savvy sports agent suddenly gains the ability to hear every man's thoughts and decides to use this secret edge to climb the corporate ladder, but as she manipulates her domineering male rivals, she must confront the ethical fallout of exploiting their innermost secrets.

“She can hear men's thoughts. Let the games begin.”

Directed by
Adam Shankman
Written by
Tina Gordon, Peter Huyck
Runtime
117 min
ComedyFantasyRomance
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

A sports agent who has magically gained the ability to hear what men are thinking uses this power to challenge and outmaneuver her domineering male colleagues.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Emma E HickoxShot by Jim DenaultScored by Brian TylerDesigned by Mark Hutman

Box Office

2019 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.5× 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

$69.8M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$69.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $54.6M — 78% of worldwide · International: $15.2M (22%)

Opening weekend: $18.2M — 33% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $25.2M — 46% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,912 theaters

Also known as

  • Was Männer wollende
  • ¿En qué piensan los hombres?es
  • Ce que veulent les hommesfr
  • What Men Want - Quello che gli uomini voglionoit

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