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20th Anniversary | Official Re-Release Trailer

Corpse Bride(2005)
Released
2005 · FILM

Corpse Bride

A penniless aristocrat and a nouveau‑rich merchant’s son must overcome their own blunders and a vengeful ghost to secure an arranged marriage that could restore both families’ fortunes.

“There's been a grave misunderstanding.”

Directed by
Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Written by
John August, Caroline Thompson
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
77 min
AnimationComedyDrama

Synopsis

Set in a 19th‑century European village, the story follows a young man on the brink of marriage who is suddenly taken to the underworld and compelled to wed a mysterious corpse bride, leaving his intended spouse behind, waiting alone among the living.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 29

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 Chris LebenzonShot by Pete KozachikScored by Danny ElfmanDesigned by Alex Mcdowell

Box Office

2005 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.0× 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

$118.1M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$118.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $53.4M — 45% of worldwide · International: $64.8M (55%)

Opening weekend: $388K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $511K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 5 theaters

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Also known as

  • Corpse Bride – Hochzeit mit einer Leichede
  • Tim Burtons Corpse Bride - Hochzeit mit einer Leichede
  • Tim Burtons Corpse Bride: Hochzeit mit einer Leichede
  • Tim Burton's Corpse Brideen
  • Les Noces funèbresfr
  • La sposa cadavereit

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