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Released
2009 · FILM

Whiteout

U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko, the lone law enforcer on Antarctica, races against an impending polar night to solve a mysterious homicide, knowing that failure could trap a killer—and herself—among the frozen wasteland forever.

“See Your Last Breath”

Directed by
Dominic Sena
Written by
Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
101 min
ActionCrimeMystery

Synopsis

Carrie Stetko is the only U.S. Marshal stationed in Antarctica. In three days, she will depart the continent as the sun sets and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station closes for the winter. When a body is found on the open ice, Stetko's investigation into what appears to be the first homicide ever recorded on the continent leads her into a dangerous mystery that could prove fatal.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 37

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 Martin HunterShot by Christopher SoosScored by John FrizzellDesigned by Graham Grace Walker

Box Office

2009 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$18.0M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$18.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $6.4M

Peak 2,745 theaters

Also known as

  • Whiteoutde
  • Whiteout - Incubo biancoit

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