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Gremlins(1984)
Released
1984 · FILM

Gremlins

When a well‑meaning inventor gifts his son a mysterious furry pet with three strict care rules, he must race to stop the creature’s chaotic transformation after those rules are shattered, lest an army of mischievous monsters overrun their town.

“Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous.”

Directed by
Joe Dante
Written by
Chris Columbus
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
106 min
ComedyFantasyHorror

Synopsis

A young man receives an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, but he inadvertently breaks three important rules regarding its care, unleashing a group of malevolently mischievous creatures upon a small town.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 61+ 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 Tina HirschShot by John HoraScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by James H Spencer

Box Office

1984 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 14× 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

$153.1M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$153.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $148.2M — 97% of worldwide · International: $4.9M (3%)

Opening weekend: $12.5M — 8% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $20.9M — 14% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,511 theaters

Re-release box office

202064 theaters
$295K($377K today)
19851,174 theaters
$7.4M($22.8M today)
Total re-release
$7.7M

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Gremlins – Kleine Monsterde

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