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Released
2019 · FILM

Child's Play

A devoted single mother must protect her teenage son from a seemingly innocent birthday gift that turns out to be a murderous, sentient doll threatening their lives.

“More than a toy... he's your best friend.”

Directed by
Lars Klevberg, Taylor Falconer
Written by
Tyler Burton Smith, Don Mancini
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
90 min
DramaHorrorSci-Fi

Synopsis

Karen, a single mother, gives her son Andy a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its sinister nature. The film serves as a contemporary reimagining of the 1988 horror classic.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 252+ 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 Tom ElkinsShot by Brendan UegamaScored by Jason La RoccaDesigned by Dan HermansenSound by Mark AnglyCostumes by Jori Woodman

Box Office

2019 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.5× 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

$44.9M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$44.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $29.2M — 65% of worldwide · International: $15.7M (35%)

Opening weekend: $14.1M — 48% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $19.1M — 65% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,007 theaters

Also known as

  • Child's Playde
  • Child's Playen
  • Child's Play : La Poupée du malfr
  • La bambola assassinait
  • (Bulgarian)Детска игра
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • FranceJun 18, 2019
  • BelgiumJun 19, 2019
  • ItalyJun 19, 2019
  • AustraliaJun 20, 2019

Companies

ProductionOrion Pictures, BRON Studios, KatzSmith Productions

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