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Released
2008 · FILM

Inkheart

A book-loving father and his young daughter must navigate a dangerous world where words have power to find a lost book that can bring a missing family member back to reality.

“Every story ever written is just waiting to become real.”

Directed by
Iain Softley, Jeremy Angel
Written by
David Lindsay Abaire, Cornelia Funke
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
106 min
AdventureFamilyFantasy

Synopsis

A father and his young daughter embark on an adventure to find a long-lost book that may help them reunite with a missing, close family member.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 268+ 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 Martin WalshShot by Roger PrattScored by Javier NavarreteDesigned by John BeardSound by Nick AdamsCostumes by Verity Hawkes

Box Office

2008 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.0× 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

$62.8M

Budget$60.0M
Worldwide gross$62.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.3M — 28% of worldwide · International: $45.5M (72%)

Also known as

  • Tintenherzde
  • Corazón de tintaes
  • Coeur d'encrefr
  • Cœur d'encrefr
  • (English)Inkheart
  • Inkheart - La leggenda di cuore d'inchiostroit
  • (Bulgarian)Мастилено сърце
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • SwitzerlandDec 11, 2008
  • GermanyDec 11, 2008
  • AustriaDec 12, 2008
  • United KingdomDec 12, 2008
  • IrelandDec 12, 2008

Companies

ProductionNew Line Cinema, Internationale Filmproduktion Blackbird Erste
DistributionEntertainment Film Distributors, Fox-Warner, Village Films, Warner Bros., Front Row Filmed Entertainment
Special effectsDouble Negative (DNEG), Cinesite, Peerless Camera Company, Rainmaker, Mattes & Miniatures Visual Effects
Other companiesItalian Riviera Alpi del Mare Film Commission, Benchmark Sound Services, Camera Revolution, Casting Collective, Costumi d'Arte

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