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Released
1980 · FILM

Xanadu

A charismatic muse takes human form and sets out to unite a disillusioned businessman and an eccentric artist in building a dazzling disco roller rink, but she must overcome their clashing egos and the skeptics who threaten to crush their dream of Xanadu.

“A Fantasy, A Musical, A Place Where Dreams Come True.”

Directed by
Robert Greenwald
Written by
Richard Christian Danus, Marc Reid Rubel
Runtime
96 min
FantasyMusicalRomance

Synopsis

Kira is a Greek muse who has taken human form on Earth with the purpose of inspiring people. She brings together Dan McGuire and an artist named Sonny Malone, encouraging them to collaborate on the creation of a large disco roller rink known as Xanadu.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Dennis VirklerShot by Victor J KemperScored by Barry De VorzonDesigned by John W Corso

Box Office

1980 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$22.8M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$22.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.5M — 6% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 249 theaters

Also known as

  • Xanadude

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