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Fantastic Mr. Fox(2009)
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2009 · FILM

Fantastic Mr. Fox

A clever fox desperate to secure a safe home for his pregnant wife and newborn son must outwit three ruthless farmers whose deadly retaliation threatens to destroy everything he loves.

“Dig the life fantastic.”

Directed by
Wes Anderson, Ben Barrowman
Written by
Noah Baumbach, Roald Dahl
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
87 min
AdventureAnimationComedy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Mr. Fox, growing weary of his routine life, devises a plan to rob the three local farmers. In response to the fox's repeated thefts of their chickens, the farmers conspire to take revenge on Mr. Fox and his family.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 183+ 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 Ralph FosterShot by Tristan OliverScored by Alexandre DesplatDesigned by Nelson LowrySound by Steve BrowellVFX by Liz Chan

Box Office

2009 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× 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

$46.5M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$46.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $21.0M — 45% of worldwide · International: $25.5M (55%)

Opening weekend: $266K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $359K — 2% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Der fantastische Mr. Foxde
  • Fantastic Mr. Foxen
  • (Bulgarian)Фантастичният господин Фокс
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United KingdomOct 14, 2009
  • BrazilOct 23, 2009
  • IrelandOct 23, 2009
  • United StatesOct 30, 2009

Companies

Production20th Century Fox, Indian Paintbrush, Regency Enterprises

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