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Released
2011 · FILM

A Monster in Paris

A reserved Parisian projectionist and his flamboyant inventor ally must safeguard an enormous, harmless flea—mistaken for a monster—from a ruthless police chief intent on exploiting the creature.

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Directed by
Runtime
90 min
Language
FR
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

In 1910 Paris, Emile, a reserved movie projectionist, and Raoul, a vibrant inventor, become involved in a quest to capture a monster that is frightening the public. They team up with Lucille, the warm-hearted star of the Bird of Paradise cabaret, along with an eccentric scientist and his irritable monkey, to rescue the creature, which is revealed to be a large but innocent flea, from the city's aggressively ambitious police chief.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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 Pascal CheveScored by Matthieu ChedidDesigned by Francois Moret

Box Office

2011 · 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

$26.6M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$26.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Ein Monster in Parisde
  • A Monster in Parisen
  • Un monstruo en Paríses
  • Un mostro a Parigiit

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