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A Bug's Life(1998)
Released
1998 · FILM

A Bug's Life

Inventor ant Flik must rally a misfit troupe of circus insects into heroic defenders to rescue his starving colony from a ruthless gang of grasshoppers, risking disaster for the chance at freedom.

“An epic of miniature proportions.”

Directed by
John Lasseter
Written by
Andrew Stanton, Don Mcenery
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
95 min
AdventureAnimationComedy
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

Representing "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik enlists a group of warrior bugs to protect his thriving colony from a gang of parasitic grasshoppers led by the malevolent Hopper.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 68+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lee UnkrichShot by Sharon CalahanScored by Randy NewmanDesigned by William Cone

Box Office

1998 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$363.3M

Budget$80.0M
Worldwide gross$363.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $162.8M — 45% of worldwide · International: $200.5M (55%)

Opening weekend: $291K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $12.9M — 8% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1 theaters

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Also known as

  • Das grosse Krabbelnde
  • Das große Krabbelnde
  • Disney PIXAR Das große Krabbelnde
  • Bug Storyen
  • Bichos: Una aventura en miniaturaes
  • 1001 pattesfr

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