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Released
2003 · FILM

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Daffy Duck teams up with a down‑on‑his‑luck stuntman to track down a priceless blue diamond and rescue the stuntman's kidnapped father, while the ruthless Acme Corporation hunts them across the globe to seize the gem for its own diabolical scheme.

“How do they solve a mystery when they don't have a clue?”

Directed by
Joe Dante
Written by
Larry Doyle
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
92 min
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

Frustrated by the constant spotlight on Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck decides to leave Hollywood and joins forces with recently laid-off stuntman Damien Drake Jr. on a globe-trotting journey. Accompanying them are Bugs Bunny and the Vice President of Warner Bros. Their objective is to locate Damien's father and recover a missing blue diamond, all while evading The Acme Corp., which seeks the diamond for its own agenda.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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 Rick FinneyShot by Dean CundeyScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Bill Brzeski

Box Office

2003 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$68.5M

Budget$80.0M
Worldwide gross$68.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $21.0M — 31% of worldwide · International: $47.5M (69%)

Opening weekend: $9.3M — 44% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $10.7M — 51% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,903 theaters

Also known as

  • Looney Tunes - Back in Actionde
  • Looney Tunes: De nuevo en acciónes
  • Les Looney Tunes passent à l'actionfr

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