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Released
2012 · FILM

Ice Age: Continental Drift

A protective mammoth must navigate a treacherous, moving iceberg alongside his quirky companions to reunite with his separated family before the collapsing continent shatters their world forever.

“The end of the world is just the tip of the iceberg.”

Directed by
Steve Martino, Michael Thurmeier
Written by
Michael Berg, Jason Fuchs
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
88 min
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

Manny, Diego, and Sid begin a new adventure when their continent becomes detached and drifts away. Using an iceberg as their vessel, they travel through the ocean, encountering various sea creatures and confronting pirates while exploring an unfamiliar world.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 71+ 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 James PalumboShot by Renato FalcaoScored by John Powell

Box Office

2012 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.2× 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

$877.2M

Budget$95.0M
Worldwide gross$877.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $161.3M — 18% of worldwide · International: $715.9M (82%)

Opening weekend: $46.6M — 29% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $68.4M — 42% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,881 theaters

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Also known as

  • Ice Age 4 - Voll verschobende
  • Ice Age: Continental Driften
  • L’Âge de glace : La Dérive des continentsfr
  • L’Âge de glace 4 : La Dérive des continentsfr
  • L'era glaciale 4 - Continenti alla derivait

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