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Released
2013 · FILM

Free Birds

Two rival turkeys must set aside their feud and race through time to stop the first Thanksgiving feast from ever featuring turkey—risking history itself to save their species.

“The greatest turkey movie of all time.”

Directed by
Jimmy Hayward
Written by
Scott Mosier, Jimmy Hayward
Runtime
91 min
AdventureAnimationComedy
Streaming on
  • Philo

Synopsis

Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history—and get turkey off the holiday menu for good.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Chris CartagenaScored by Dominic LewisDesigned by Kevin R Adams

Box Office

2013 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.0× 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

$110.0M

Budget$55.0M
Worldwide gross$110.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $55.8M — 51% of worldwide · International: $54.2M (49%)

Opening weekend: $15.8M — 28% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $19.0M — 34% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,736 theaters

Also known as

  • Free Birds - Esst uns an einem anderen Tagde
  • Drôles de dindesfr
  • Free Birds - Tacchini in fugait

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