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Dawn Of The Dead (2004) - Official Trailer (HD)

Dawn of the Dead(2004)
Released
2004 · FILM

Dawn of the Dead

Nurse Ana must navigate a sudden zombie apocalypse in Milwaukee, teaming with a gritty police sergeant and unlikely allies to reach safety before the infected overwhelm the city.

“When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.”

Directed by
Zack Snyder
Written by
George A Romero, James Gunn
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
101 min
ActionHorror
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A group of survivors takes refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 56+ 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 Niven HowieShot by Matthew F LeonettiScored by Tyler BatesDesigned by Andrew Neskoromny

Box Office

2004 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.9× 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

$102.3M

Budget$26.0M
Worldwide gross$102.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $59.0M — 58% of worldwide · International: $43.3M (42%)

Opening weekend: $26.7M — 45% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $33.5M — 57% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,745 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Dawn Of The Deadde
  • Amanecer de los muertoses
  • L'Armée des mortsfr
  • L'alba dei morti viventiit

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