Great Art Always Survives
Searching for Sugar Man
46Standing
125th of 226 in British Cinema
- Out-grossed 24% of British Cinema releases with reported figures ($4M).
- Returned 3.7× its budget, against an industry median of 1.7×.
- Momentum in the 12th percentile.
- Audience rating 7.9 from 1,070 votes, the 96th percentile.
- Cost
- $1M
- Took
- $4M
Blockbuster3.7× its cost
Against a British Cinema median of 1.7×, so this one returned 2.2 times what a typical release there does.
The money says blockbuster. What do you say?
The picture
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.
- Released
- 30 June 2012
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Language
- English
- Industry
- British Cinema
Top billedAll 20 credits
- Stephen SegermanSelf
- RodriguezSelf
- Regan RodriguezSelf
- Eva RodriguezSelf
- Mike TheodoreSelf
- Dennis CoffeySelf
Made by
- Director
- Malik Bendjelloul
- Writer
- Malik Bendjelloul
- Director of Photography
- Camilla Skagerström
- Producer
- Simon Chinn, Malik Bendjelloul
Filed under
DocumentaryMusic