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Night at the Museum(2006)
Released
2006 · FILM

Night at the Museum

A down‑on‑his‑luck inventor takes a night shift at the Natural History Museum, only to discover its T‑rex skeleton has come alive and is wreaking havoc, forcing him to outwit the prehistoric predator before it escapes into New York City and ruins his chance to prove himself to his son.

“Where history comes to life.”

Directed by
Shawn Levy
Written by
Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
108 min
AdventureComedyFamily
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Chaos erupts at the Natural History Museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally triggers an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army of gladiators, a Tyrannosaurus rex, and other exhibits.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 55+ 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 Don ZimmermanShot by Guillermo NavarroScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by Claude Pare

Box Office

2006 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.2× 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

$574.5M

Budget$110.0M
Worldwide gross$574.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $250.9M — 44% of worldwide · International: $323.6M (56%)

Opening weekend: $30.4M — 12% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $79.1M — 32% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,685 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Nachts im Museumde
  • Night at the Museumen
  • La Nuit au muséefr
  • La Nuit au musée 1fr
  • Una notte al museoit

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