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Released
2010 · FILM

Wild Target

A meticulous assassin who lives to please his demanding mother must protect a charismatic woman he was hired to kill, while navigating the chaos of an eager rookie who mistakes him for a private eye and a vengeful client determined to see her dead.

“They said 'Take her out'. He got the wrong idea.”

Directed by
Jonathan Lynn
Written by
Lucinda Coxon, Pierre Salvadori
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
98 min
ActionComedyCrime
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

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 Michael ParkerShot by David JohnsonScored by Michael PriceDesigned by Caroline Greville Morris

Box Office

2010 · 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

$3.5M

Budget$8.0M
Worldwide gross$3.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $33K

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • Wild Target - Romanze in Bleide
  • Wild Target - Sein schärfstes Zielde
  • Petits meurtres à l'anglaisefr

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