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A Nightmare on Elm Street(2010)
Released
2010 · FILM

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Teenager Nancy must rally her friends and stay awake long enough to outwit a disfigured nightmare stalker who murders them in their sleep, or risk being killed forever.

“Welcome to your new nightmare.”

Directed by
Samuel Bayer, Kwame Amoaku
Written by
Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
95 min
CrimeDramaHorror

Synopsis

Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse, and Dean are teenagers and neighborhood friends who begin experiencing the same recurring dream featuring a disfigured man wearing a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man torments them in the dreams, and the only way to escape is to wake up. However, as each of them begins to die under violent circumstances in real life, they come to understand that the events in their dreams are not just figments of imagination but are actually happening. They realize that the only way to survive is to remain awake.

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A crew of 667+ 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 Glen ScantleburyShot by Jeff CutterScored by Steve JablonskyDesigned by Patrick LumbSound by Walter AndersonCostumes by Mari An CeoStunts by Kurt BryantVFX by Sean Andrew Faden

Box Office

2010 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.3× 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

$115.7M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$115.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $63.1M — 55% of worldwide · International: $52.6M (45%)

Opening weekend: $32.9M — 52% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $39.4M — 62% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,332 theaters

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Also known as

  • (English)A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • A Nightmare on Elm Streetde
  • Pesadilla en Elm Street: El origenes
  • Freddy : Les Griffes de la nuitfr
  • Nightmareit
  • (Bulgarian)Кошмари на Елм Стрийт
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesApr 27, 2010
  • CanadaApr 30, 2010
  • ArgentinaMay 3, 2010

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New Line CinemaPlatinum Dunes

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