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Released
2016 · FILM

Bad Santa 2

A disgraced con driven by booze and greed teams up with his irritable elf‑sidekick to pull off a high‑stakes robbery of a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve, but their festive façade threatens to implode under the watchful eyes of holiday crowds and law enforcement.

“Giving the holidays another shot.”

Directed by
Mark Waters
Written by
Johnny Rosenthal, Shauna Cross
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
92 min
ComedyCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed, and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to rob a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out the best in Willie.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 79+ 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 Travis SittardShot by Theo Van De SandeScored by Lyle WorkmanDesigned by Isabelle Guay

Box Office

2016 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$24.1M

Budget$26.0M
Worldwide gross$24.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.8M — 74% of worldwide · International: $6.3M (26%)

Opening weekend: $2.9M — 16% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $2.9M — 16% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,920 theaters

Also known as

  • Bad Santa 2de
  • Babbo bastardo 2it

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