Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Name: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Director: Roger Pratt
Released: 2002

A young wizard warned of danger by a mysterious house-elf must outwit his cruel relatives, avoid a flying-car crash, and uncover a sinister plot just in time to return to Hogwarts for the school year.

“Something evil has returned to Hogwarts!”

Directed by

Chris Columbus, Chris Carreras

Rated

FSK · FSK 6

Runtime

161 min

AdventureFamilyFantasy

Streaming on

Synopsis

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 881+ 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 Peter HonessShot by Roger PrattScored by John WilliamsSound by Dennis LeonardCostumes by Lindy HemmingVFX by Tim Burke Nm0121888

Box Office

2002 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.8× 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

$876.7M

Budget$100.0M

Worldwide gross$876.7M

break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $262.0M — 30% of worldwide · International: $614.7M (70%)

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