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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa(2008)
Released
2008 · FILM

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

A young lion raised in New York’s Central Park Zoo must reunite with his wild pride and confront a rival alpha to protect his homeland, while an eclectic crew of zoo friends crash‑lands in Africa and joins the battle for survival.

“Still together, still lost.”

Directed by
Eric Darnell, Tom Mcgrath
Written by
Etan Cohen, Eric Darnell
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
89 min
AdventureAnimationComedy
Streaming on
  • Netflix

Synopsis

Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals escape from Madagascar when the penguins manage to repair a wrecked airplane. The fragile aircraft remains airborne long enough to reach the African continent. There, the New Yorkers meet members of their own species for the first time. Africa turns out to be a wild and unpredictable place, leading Alex and his companions to question whether it is truly better than their home in Central Park.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 51+ 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 H Lee PetersonScored by Will I AmDesigned by Kendal Cronkhite

Box Office

2008 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.0× 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

$603.9M

Budget$150.0M
Worldwide gross$603.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $180.0M — 30% of worldwide · International: $423.9M (70%)

Opening weekend: $63.1M — 35% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $81.9M — 45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4,056 theaters

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Also known as

  • Madagascar 2de
  • Madagaskar 2de
  • Madagascar 2: Escape de Áfricaes
  • Madagascar 2fr
  • Madagascar 2 : la grande évasionfr
  • Madagascar 2it
  • Madagascar 2 - Via dall'isolait

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