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Life of Pi(2012)
Released
2012 · FILM

Life of Pi

A young Indian boy raised in a zoo and devoted to three religions must survive a harrowing shipwreck and find faith in the unexplainable when he is stranded at sea with a Bengal tiger.

“Take the journey of a lifetime.”

Directed by
Ang Lee, Elumalai A
Written by
Yann Martel, David Magee
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
127 min
AdventureDramaFantasy

Synopsis

The story follows an Indian boy named Pi, the son of a zookeeper, who becomes stranded at sea with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck leaves them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 302+ 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 Tim SquyresShot by Claudio MirandaScored by Mychael DannaDesigned by David GropmanSound by Ron Bartlett Nm0058897Costumes by Arjun BhasinStunts by Charles Croughwell

Box Office

2012 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.1× 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

$609.0M

Budget$120.0M
Worldwide gross$609.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $125.0M — 21% of worldwide · International: $484.0M (79%)

Opening weekend: $8.1M — 6% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $8.1M — 6% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,902 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Life of Pi: Schiffbruch mit Tigerde
  • Schiffbruch mit Tigerde
  • L'Odyssée de Pifr
  • Vita di Piit
  • (Croatian)Pijev zivot
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United StatesSep 28, 2012
  • TaiwanNov 10, 2012
  • CanadaNov 21, 2012
  • Puerto RicoNov 21, 2012

Companies

ProductionFox 2000 Pictures, Dune Entertainment, Ingenious Media

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