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Released
2016 · FILM

A Monster Calls

A grieving twelve‑year‑old boy summons a towering tree spirit to help him confront his deepest fears and find the courage to face his mother’s terminal illness.

“Stories are wild creatures.”

Directed by
J A Bayona, Anna Capdevila
Written by
Patrick Ness, Siobhan Dowd
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
108 min
AdventureDramaFamily
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Conor meets an ancient tree monster who helps him cope with his mother's illness.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 281+ 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 Jaume MartiShot by Oscar FauraScored by Fernando VelazquezDesigned by Eugenio CaballeroSound by Jorge AdradosCostumes by Steven NobleStunts by Cuco UsinVFX by Laia Alomar

Box Office

2016 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$47.3M

Budget$43.0M
Worldwide gross$47.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $3.7M — 8% of worldwide · International: $43.6M (92%)

Opening weekend: $31K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $52K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • (cable TV title)7 minutos depois da meia-noite
  • Sieben Minuten nach Mitternachtde
  • A Monsters Callses
  • Quelques minutes après minuitfr
  • 7 minuti dopo la mezzanotteit
  • Sette minuti dopo la mezzanotteit
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • CanadaSep 9, 2016
  • SpainSep 20, 2016
  • SwitzerlandSep 23, 2016
  • FinlandSep 25, 2016
  • United StatesSep 27, 2016

Companies

ProductionParticipant, River Road Entertainment, A Monster Calls

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