Keep your enemies close.

Black Mass

Name: Black Mass
Genre: Drama, Crime, History
Released: 2015-09-17
Duration: 123 min
Cast: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Julianne Nicholson, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon

Hollywood20152h 3mEnglishTop 52% of Hollywood budgets

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825th of 1,098 in Hollywood

Reported gross: 39
Return on budget: 28
Audience rating: 32
Momentum: 32

Out-grossed 39% of Hollywood releases with reported figures ($100M).
Returned 1.9× its budget, against an industry median of 3.1×.
Momentum in the 32nd percentile.
Audience rating 6.5 from 3,699 votes, the 32nd percentile.

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Cost: $53M
Took: $100M

Against a Hollywood median of 3.1×, so this one returned 0.6 times what a typical release there does.

The money says hit. What do you say?

The picture

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Released: 17 September 2015
Runtime: 2h 3m
Language: English
Industry: Hollywood

Top billedAll 25 credits

Johnny DeppJames 'Whitey' Bulger
Joel EdgertonJohn Connolly
Julianne NicholsonMarianne Connolly
Dakota JohnsonLindsey Cyr
Kevin BaconFBI Agent Charles McGuire
Benedict CumberbatchBilly Bulger

Made by

Director: Scott Cooper
Screenplay: Jez Butterworth, Mark Mallouk
Original Music Composer: Tom Holkenborg
Director of Photography: Masanobu Takayanagi
Producer: Brian Oliver, Scott Cooper, John Lesher, Patrick McCormick, Tyler Thompson

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