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Released
1990 · FILM

DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp

Scrooge McDuck teams up with his adventurous nephews and niece to locate a legendary lost lamp that promises unimaginable riches, but a ruthless sorcerer and his minions will stop at nothing to claim its power first.

Directed by
Bob Hathcock
Written by
Alan Burnett
Runtime
74 min
AdventureAnimationComedy
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

With his nephews and niece, everyone

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Charlie KingScored by David NewmanDesigned by Skip Morgan

Box Office

1990 · 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

$18.1M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$18.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.9M — 21% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.7M — 37% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,549 theaters

Also known as

  • Ducktales: Der Film - Jäger der verlorenen Lampede
  • DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lampen
  • Patoaventuras La Película: El Tesoro de la Lámpara Perdidaes
  • La Bande à Picsou, le film : Le Trésor de la lampe perduefr
  • Picsou : le trésor de la lampe perduefr
  • Zio Paperone alla ricerca della lampada perdutait

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