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Released
2015 · FILM

Hotel Transylvania 2

A young vampire mother must choose between keeping her half‑human son in Transylvania to inherit his powers or fleeing to California for a normal childhood, while a stubborn patriarch schemes to preserve the family’s dark legacy.

“They're back to raise a little terror.”

Directed by
Genndy Tartakovsky, William E Arias
Written by
Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
89 min
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

When the old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern-day cool.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 613+ 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 Catherine AppleShot by Sean BurrisScored by Mark MothersbaughDesigned by Michael KurinskySound by Tom Johnson Nm0426348VFX by Karl Herbst

Box Office

2015 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.9× 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

$473.2M

Budget$80.0M
Worldwide gross$473.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $169.7M — 36% of worldwide · International: $303.5M (64%)

Opening weekend: $48.5M — 29% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $57.5M — 34% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,754 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Hotel Transsilvanien 2de
  • Hôtel Transylvanie 2fr
  • (English)Hotel Transylvania 2
  • (Bulgarian)Хотел Трансилвания 2
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • CzechiaSep 21, 2015
  • Hong Kong SAR ChinaSep 21, 2015
  • PhilippinesSep 23, 2015
  • United Arab EmiratesSep 24, 2015

Production & Distribution

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Columbia PicturesSony Pictures AnimationLStar Capital

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