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Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events(2004)
Released
2004 · FILM

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Orphaned siblings Violet, Klaus, and baby Sunny must outwit the murderous Count Olaf, who will inherit their fortune unless they survive his deadly schemes until Violet turns eighteen.

“Mishaps. Misadventures. Mayhem. Oh joy.”

Directed by
Brad Silberling, Hans Berggren
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
108 min
AdventureComedyFamily

Synopsis

Three children, whose wealthy parents died in a fire, are sent to live with a distant relative. Upon arriving, they discover that the relative is plotting to kill them in order to claim their inheritance.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 973+ 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 Michael KahnShot by Emmanuel LubezkiScored by Thomas NewmanSound by Richard King Nm0455185Stunts by Doug ColemanVFX by Julie Creighton

Box Office

2004 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× 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

$211.5M

Budget$140.0M
Worldwide gross$211.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $118.6M — 56% of worldwide · International: $92.8M (44%)

Opening weekend: $30.1M — 25% of its US run.

Peak 3,620 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Lemony Snicket – Rätselhafte Ereignissede
  • A Series of Unfortunate Eventsen
  • Una serie de eventos desafortunadoses
  • Les Désastreuses Aventures des orphelins Baudelairefr
  • Lemony Snicket - Una serie di sfortunati eventiit

Production & Distribution

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Paramount PicturesDreamWorks PicturesNickelodeon Movies

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