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Godzilla(2014)
Released
2014 · FILM

Godzilla

A Navy EOD officer returns home only to confront a revived prehistoric predator unleashed by a nuclear plant disaster, forcing him to race against time to stop the monster before it razes Japan.

“The world ends, Godzilla begins.”

Directed by
Gareth Edwards
Written by
Dave Callaham, Max Borenstein
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
123 min
ActionAdventureSci-Fi

Synopsis

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, recently reunited with his family in San Francisco when he was called to Japan to assist his estranged father, Joe. As both men attempt to reconnect, they become entangled in a growing crisis when an ancient alpha predator emerges from the sea to confront malevolent adversaries threatening humanity's survival. The creatures cause massive destruction as they advance toward their ultimate battleground: San Francisco.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 31

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 Bob DucsayShot by Seamus McgarveyScored by Alexandre DesplatDesigned by Owen Paterson

Box Office

2014 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.3× 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

$525.0M

Budget$160.0M
Worldwide gross$525.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $200.7M — 38% of worldwide · International: $324.3M (62%)

Opening weekend: $93.2M — 46% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $117.3M — 58% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,952 theaters

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Also known as

  • Godzillade

Companies

ProductionWarner Bros., Legendary Pictures, Disruption Entertainment

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