We are four Lions.

Four Lions

Name: Four Lions
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Released: 2010-05-07
Duration: 97 min
Cast: Riz Ahmed, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak, Adeel Akhtar, Arsher Ali

British Cinema20101h 37mEnglishTop 89% of British Cinema budgets

37Standing

154th of 226 in British Cinema

Reported gross: 30
Return on budget: 47
Audience rating: 65
Momentum: 13

Out-grossed 30% of British Cinema releases with reported figures ($6M).
Returned 1.6× its budget, against an industry median of 1.7×.
Momentum in the 13th percentile.
Audience rating 6.9 from 1,337 votes, the 65th percentile.

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Cost: $4M
Took: $6M

Against a British Cinema median of 1.7×, so this one returned 0.9 times what a typical release there does.

The money says hit. What do you say?

The picture

Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.

Released: 7 May 2010
Runtime: 1h 37m
Language: English
Industry: British Cinema

Top billedAll 24 credits

Made by

Director: Chris Morris
Writer: Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Simon Blackwell
Original Music Composer: Jonathan Whitehead
Director of Photography: Lol Crawley
Producer: Derrin Schlesinger, Mark Herbert

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ComedyDramaCrime

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