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Released
2017 · FILM

Ferdinand

A gentle bull named Ferdinand dreams of a quiet life among flowers, but when he’s mistakenly chosen for the brutal Madrid bullfights, he must outwit ruthless trainers and rally an unlikely crew to escape the arena and protect his peaceful way of living.

“Built to fight. Born to love.”

Directed by
Carlos Saldanha, Isaac Holze
Written by
Robert L Baird, Tim Federle
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
108 min
AdventureAnimationComedy
Streaming on
  • HBO Max

Synopsis

Ferdinand, a young bull, prefers to sit quietly under a cork tree, enjoying the scent of flowers, rather than engage in the typical boisterous behavior of jumping, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As he matures into a large and strong bull, his calm and gentle nature remains unchanged. However, one day, five men arrive to select the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for bullfights in Madrid—and Ferdinand is chosen by mistake.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 170+ 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 Harry HitnerShot by Renato FalcaoScored by John PowellDesigned by Thomas CardoneSound by Jeremy Bowker

Box Office

2017 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.7× 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

$295.0M

Budget$111.0M
Worldwide gross$295.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $84.4M — 29% of worldwide · International: $210.6M (71%)

Opening weekend: $13.4M — 16% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $19.5M — 23% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,621 theaters

Also known as

  • Ferdinand – Geht STIERisch ab!de
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • United StatesNov 11, 2017
  • United Arab EmiratesDec 8, 2017
  • EgyptDec 13, 2017
  • AustraliaDec 14, 2017
  • SwitzerlandDec 14, 2017

Companies

Production20th Century Fox Animation, Blue Sky Studios, Davis Entertainment
Distribution20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox CIS, 20th Century Fox Norway, 20th Century Fox Sweden
Other companiesWalt Disney Studios, 5 Cat Studios, Barco Auro 11.1, CGI Studio, Connecticut Office of Film, Television, and Digital Media

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