What would you hide to protect your family?

Contraband

Name: Contraband
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: 2012-01-12
Duration: 109 min
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas

British Cinema20121h 49mEnglishTop 33% of British Cinema budgets

65Standing

62nd of 226 in British Cinema

Reported gross: 84
Return on budget: 76
Audience rating: 29
Momentum: 61

Out-grossed 84% of British Cinema releases with reported figures ($96M).
Returned 3.9× its budget, against an industry median of 1.7×.
Momentum in the 61st percentile.
Audience rating 6.3 from 2,289 votes, the 29th percentile.

The full British Cinema leaderboard

Cost: $25M
Took: $96M

Against a British Cinema median of 1.7×, so this one returned 2.3 times what a typical release there does.

The money says blockbuster. What do you say?

The picture

When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.

Released: 12 January 2012
Runtime: 1h 49m
Language: English
Industry: British Cinema

Top billedAll 24 credits

Mark WahlbergChris Farraday
Kate BeckinsaleKate Farraday
Ben FosterSebastian Abney
Giovanni RibisiTim Briggs
Lukas HaasDanny Raymer
Caleb Landry JonesAndy

Made by

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Screenplay: Aaron Guzikowski
Original Music Composer: Clinton Shorter
Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd
Producer: Tim Bevan, Baltasar Kormákur, Eric Fellner, Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson

Filed under

ActionDramaThrillerCrime

Every British Cinema film of 2012: hits and flops