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Released
2003 · FILM

Calendar Girls

A spirited Yorkshire Women's Institute band decides to fund leukemia research by posing nude in a calendar, sparking nationwide scandal that threatens their community and the cause they champion.

Some ladies will do anything for a good cause.

Directed by
Runtime
108 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

A group from a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute sparks controversy by posing nude for a charity calendar.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Michael ParkerShot by Ashley RoweScored by Patrick DoyleDesigned by Martin Childs

Box Office

2003 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.7× 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

$96.5M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$96.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $31.0M 32% of worldwide · International: $65.5M (68%)

Opening weekend: $151K 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $353K1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 24 theaters

Also known as

  • Kalender Girlsde
  • Calendar Girlsen
  • Las chicas del calendarioes

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