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Captain Phillips

Name: Captain Phillips
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: 2013-10-10
Duration: 134 min
Cast: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali

Hollywood20132h 14mEnglishTop 50% of Hollywood budgets

62Standing

341st of 1,098 in Hollywood

Reported gross: 61
Return on budget: 62
Audience rating: 85
Momentum: 40

Out-grossed 61% of Hollywood releases with reported figures ($219M).
Returned 4× its budget, against an industry median of 3.1×.
Momentum in the 40th percentile.
Audience rating 7.5 from 7,727 votes, the 85th percentile.

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Cost: $55M
Took: $219M

Against a Hollywood median of 3.1×, so this one returned 1.3 times what a typical release there does.

The money says blockbuster. What do you say?

The picture

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Released: 10 October 2013
Runtime: 2h 14m
Language: English
Industry: Hollywood

Top billedAll 22 credits

Tom HanksCaptain Richard Phillips
Barkhad AbdiMuse
Barkhad AbdirahmanBilal
Faysal AhmedNajee
Mahat M. AliElmi
Michael ChernusShane Murphy

Made by

Director: Paul Greengrass
Screenplay: Billy Ray
Original Music Composer: Henry Jackman
Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd
Producer: Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin

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