Death Race
Get ready for a killer ride.
Terminal Island, New York: 2020.Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point.Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport.Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
- Director
- Paul W. S. Anderson
- Worldwide
- $76M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Death Race returned 1.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $45M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $76M
- Release date
- Aug 22, 2008
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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