Men in Black
“Protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe.”
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Studio
Columbia Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Men in Black performed
Budget
$90.0M
Worldwide Gross
$589.4M
Gross Profit
$499.4M
Return
6.5× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$78M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Kay
Tommy Lee Jones
Kay
Jay
Will Smith
Jay
Laurel
Linda Fiorentino
Laurel
Edgar
Vincent D'Onofrio
Edgar
Zed
Rip Torn
Zed
Jeebs
Tony Shalhoub
Jeebs
Beatrice
Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Beatrice
Gentle Rosenburg
Mike Nussbaum
Gentle Rosenburg
Van Driver
Jon Gries
Van Driver
Jose
Sergio Calderón
Jose
Arquillian
Carel Struycken
Arquillian
INS agent Janus
Fredric Lehne
INS agent Janus
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