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Released
1998 · FILM

Antz

Neurotic teen ant Z teams up with rebellious princess Bala to uncover the mythic Insectopia while navigating a deadly war orchestrated by a power‑hungry general, risking everything to escape their colony’s oppressive hierarchy.

“See the world from a whole new perspective.”

Directed by
Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
Written by
Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
83 min
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

A neurotic worker ant who is in love with a rebellious princess unexpectedly achieves stardom after swapping places with a soldier. While he signs up to participate in a parade, he instead finds himself under the command of a bloodthirsty general. In reality, he has been recruited to fight against an army of termites.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 146+ 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 Stan WebbShot by Jean M CunninghamScored by Harry Gregson WilliamsDesigned by John BellSound by Richard L AndersonVFX by Ken Bielenberg

Box Office

1998 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.9× 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

$171.8M

Budget$60.0M
Worldwide gross$171.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $90.8M — 53% of worldwide · International: $81.0M (47%)

Opening weekend: $17.2M — 19% of its US run.

Peak 2,449 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • (Flemish)Antz
  • Antz – Was krabbelt da?de
  • Fourmizfr
  • Z la formicait
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • CanadaSep 19, 1998
  • United StatesOct 2, 1998
  • AustraliaOct 29, 1998

Companies

ProductionDreamWorks Pictures, PDI DreamWorks

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