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There are Westerns people respect, and then there are Westerns people completely adore. Tombstone sits firmly in the second group. It’s one of those movies that seems to get bigger every few years, helped by endlessly quotable dialogue, a stacked cast, and a version of the West that feels both mythic and wildly entertaining. AMC+ is the latest place to benefit from that staying power.
The film has been charting strongly on AMC+ in the United States, where it has recently been sitting inside the service’s top 10. That’s a pretty great result for a 1993 Western, but not exactly a shocking one. Tombstone is one of those movies people will always come back to when it’s easy to stream.
Tombstone made about $56.5 million domestic on a reported $25 million budget, so it earned roughly 2.3x its production cost at the box office. Box Office Mojo lists its total worldwide gross at about $56.5 million, with essentially all of that coming from domestic release data. It wasn’t one of the absolute biggest hits of 1993, but it had strong legs. The Numbers gives it a 6.48x multiplier, which means it held well after opening, and it kept playing through the holiday corridor after opening on December 24, 1993.
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What Is 'Tombstone' About?
Inspired by several historical events, and featuring real-life individuals as characters, such as Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Johnny Ringo, Tombstone starred Kurt Russell alongside the likes of Bill Paxton, Sam Elliott, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Stephen Lang, Charlton Heston, and the incredible Val Kilmer, who was never better in his career than in Tombstone. The full synopsis for the movie reads:
"Wyatt Earp and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, have left their gunslinger ways behind them to settle down and start a business in the town of Tombstone, Ariz. While they aren't looking to find trouble, trouble soon finds them when they become targets of the ruthless Cowboy gang. Now, together with Wyatt's best friend, Doc Holliday, the brothers pick up their guns once more to restore order to a lawless land."
Tombstone is streaming now.
Release Date December 25, 1993
Runtime 130 minutes
Director George P. Cosmatos
Writers Kevin Jarre
Producers Bob Misiorowski, James Jacks, Sean Daniel
English (US) ·