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Madagascar(2005)
Released
2005 · FILM

Madagascar

A lion, his eccentric zoo friends, and a team of penguins must embark on a wild adventure across New York City to stop Marty the zebra from fleeing to the unknown, before the authorities close in.

“They weren't born in the wild... They were shipped there.”

Directed by
Eric Darnell, Tom Mcgrath
Written by
Mark Burton, Billy Frolick
Rated
FSK · FSK 0
Runtime
86 min
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

Four animal friends experience a taste of wild life after escaping captivity at the Central Park Zoo and washing ashore on the island of Madagascar.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 157+ 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 Clare KnightShot by Todd HarveyScored by Hans ZimmerDesigned by Kendal CronkhiteSound by Richard L Anderson

Box Office

2005 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.2× 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

$542.1M

Budget$75.0M
Worldwide gross$542.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $193.6M — 36% of worldwide · International: $348.5M (64%)

Re-release box office

20261,083 theaters
$438K($438K today)
2020
$516K($660K today)
Total re-release
$954K

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Madagascarde
  • (English)Madagascar
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • United StatesMay 15, 2005
  • Puerto RicoMay 26, 2005
  • CanadaMay 27, 2005
  • MalaysiaMay 27, 2005
  • PhilippinesMay 27, 2005

Companies

ProductionDreamWorks Animation, PDI DreamWorks

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