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Ender's Game(2013)
Released
2013 · FILM

Ender's Game

A child prodigy recruited into an elite space‑battle school must outwit rival cadets and deadly simulations to lead humanity’s counter‑strike against a hostile alien empire, while the line between training and real war blurs with catastrophic stakes.

“This is not a game.”

Directed by
Gavin Hood, Maria Battle Campbell
Written by
Gavin Hood, Orson Scott Card
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
114 min
ActionAdventureAnimation

Synopsis

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, *Ender's Game* follows the story of Earth's most gifted children as they undergo training to defend their planet in the space wars of the future.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 298+ 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 Lee SmithShot by Donald McalpineScored by Steve JablonskyDesigned by Sean HaworthSound by Ron Bartlett Nm0058897Costumes by Christine Bieselin Clark

Box Office

2013 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$125.5M

Budget$110.0M
Worldwide gross$125.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $61.7M — 49% of worldwide · International: $63.8M (51%)

Opening weekend: $27.0M — 44% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $33.8M — 55% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,407 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Ender's Game - Das große Spielde
  • (English)Ender's Game
  • El juego de Enderes
  • La Stratégie Enderfr
  • (Bulgarian)Играта на Ендър
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • GermanyOct 24, 2013
  • United KingdomOct 25, 2013
  • IrelandOct 25, 2013
  • United StatesOct 28, 2013
  • ItalyOct 30, 2013

Companies

ProductionSummit Entertainment, Madison Wells, Chartoff Productions

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