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MONEY
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Grossed $720M — a 20.6× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
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It
"You'll float too."
2017 2h 15m EN
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7.2
SOLID
★7.2TMDB · 20,750
HorrorThrillerDrama
Synopsis
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In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
“You'll float too.”
Cast
Jaeden Martell
Bill Denbrough
Jeremy Ray Taylor
Ben Hanscom
Sophia Lillis
Beverly Marsh
Finn Wolfhard
Richie Tozier
Chosen Jacobs
Mike Hanlon
Jack Dylan Grazer
Eddie Kaspbrak
Wyatt Oleff
Stanley Uris
Bill Skarsgård
Pennywise
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Andy Muschietti
- Writers
- Michael Derrah, Rob McCallum, Simeon Wilkins
- Languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
Want more? Switch to Cinephile mode in the header for DP, composer, budget, box office, production companies, keywords, and release history.
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ERA
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Released 9 years ago.
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CINEMA
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Part of the "It Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
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CAST
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232+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
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DIRECTOR
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Directed by Andy Muschietti, shot by Chung Chung-hoon. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
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DIRECTOR
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Original score by Benjamin Wallfisch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
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DIRECTOR
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Editor Jason Ballantine shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
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CAST
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Jaeden Martell and Jeremy Ray Taylor and Sophia Lillis carry the top of the cast.
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Andy Muschietti directs. Chung Chung-hoon behind the camera. Benjamin Wallfisch scores. Jason Ballantine cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Grossed $720M — a 20.6× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
- 2Released 9 years ago.
- 3Part of the "It Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
- 4232+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
- 5Directed by Andy Muschietti, shot by Chung Chung-hoon. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 6Original score by Benjamin Wallfisch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
- 7Editor Jason Ballantine shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 8Jaeden Martell and Jeremy Ray Taylor and Sophia Lillis carry the top of the cast.
- 9Marketing tagline: "You'll float too.".
- 10IMDB entry: tt1396484 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 1120,750 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
- 12Classified under 28 themes, including "small town", "based on novel or book", "halloween", "haunted house".
- 13Released under 16 different titles around the world.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Chung Chung-hoon
- Original score
- Benjamin Wallfisch
- Editing
- Jason Ballantine
- Production design
- Claude Paré
- Costume design
- Janie Bryant
- Makeup / hair
- Steven Kostanski
- VFX supervisor
- Nicholas Brooks
- Sound
- Paul Hackner
- Stunt coordinator
- Kelly Jones
- Runtime
- 135 min · 2h 15m
- Aspect ratio (typical)
- 1.37:1 (Academy)
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $35,000,000
- Box office
- $719,766,009
- Return
- 2056% of budget
- Original language
- EN
- Certification (US)
- R
- IMDB
- It (2017)
Part of
It Collection
A two-part adaptation of Stephen King's iconic novel of the same name. Seven children in Derry, Maine are terrorized by an eponymous being, only to face their own personal demons in the process. This entity returns to haunt the children every 27 years. The second installment, It Chapter Two, follows the group 27 years after the events of the first film.
Also by
Andy Muschietti
Stills · wallpapers
Selected frames
Full-resolution frames — open one to save it as a wallpaper.
Trailers & featurettes
Watch the pieces
Community reviews
What people are saying
- Simon Foster
"Skarsgård goes to hell and back to craft a truly malevolent creation, utterly believable as the black soul of King’s cursed small town..." Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2017/9/6/it.html
- Nay Myo Myat Ko★ 1/10
This movie went right to the trash. I cannot believe what Warner Bros has done for this piece of trash. Yes, there have been rave reviews for this movie, but we recommend that you do not mind them, as we should not be teaching children on how to safely get sodomized by a monster. These directors' brains are also in the trash. Now let's put the MPAA R rating right into the trash where it is supposed to go. Final warning: Don't let your kids watch trash.
- Gimly★ 7/10
More Fucked-Up-Coming-of-Age than Monster-Movie-Slasher-Horror. Which is what it should be, but perhaps not what it's marketed to be. Stephen King's It is one of my all time favourite books, and I don't know that it will ever get a faithful adaptation (totally understandable seeing as the thing is 1200 pages and contains a multi-book spanning mythology of Space Gods and Turtle vomit), but this does a pretty good job of interpreting the feeling of the novel, even if it's not a great adaptation the events as a whole. The kids are all great, Skarsgård makes for a good Pennywise, Pennywise improves as the piece moves forward, and the town is completely believable as "Derry" in the '80s. It may not be all it's purported to be, but is a very impressive film on its own merits. Final rating:★★★½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time.
Production companies
Who made it
New Line Cinema
US
Vertigo Entertainment
US
Lin Pictures
US
KatzSmith Productions
US
Key crew
- Visual Effects SupervisorNicholas Brooks
- Visual Effects ProducerKendrick Wallace
- StuntsBauston Camilleri
- StuntsChad Camilleri
- StuntsCanaan Davison
- StuntsNeil Davison
- StuntsDustin Faith
- StuntsTom Farr
- StuntsCam Fergus
- StuntsBrayden Jones
- StuntsBrent Jones
- StuntsCiara Jones
- StuntsJennifer Murray
- StuntsJanine Parkinson
- StuntsAvery Queffelec
- StuntsAJ Risi
- StuntsIlora Rosenberg
- StuntsVincent Rother
- StuntsBryan J. Thomas
- Sound Mix TechnicianMark Purcell
- Visual Effects EditorLara Ramirez
- Payroll AccountantKatharine Duke
- ConductorTim Williams
- Digital Intermediate ColoristStephen Nakamura
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- small town
- based on novel or book
- halloween
- haunted house
- clown
- bullying
- abandoned house
- coming of age
- flashback
- murder
- balloon
- maine
- school
- creature
- fear
- summer
- killer
- missing person
- death of brother
- well
- 1980s
- kids
- creepy house
- demonic
- town history
- frightened
- ghoulish
- gloomy
Release history · US
When it landed
- Premiere2017-09-05R· Los Angeles
- Theatrical (limited)2025-09-24R· IT (2017) + IT: Welcome to Derry Sneak Peek - Dolby Cinema Exclusive
- Theatrical2017-09-08R
- Digital2017-12-19R
- Physical2018-01-09R· DVD / Blu-ray
Also known as
International titles
- Oraşul bântuITMD
- It: Chapter OneUS
- ES - Kapitel 1DE
- To ItCZ
- It - Capitolo unoIT
- To Kapitola 1CZ
- Ça - Chapitre 1FR
- It/イット それ が見えたら終わりJP
- 小丑回魂CN
- זה: חלק 1IL
- זה: פרק ראשוןIL
- DetSE
- อิทTH
- ԱյնAM
- It: A CoisaBR
