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Nocturnal Animals(2016)
Released
2016 · FILM

Nocturnal Animals

An upscale LA gallery owner receives a haunting manuscript from her long‑absent ex‑husband that mirrors a terrifying road‑trip kidnapping, compelling her to confront buried betrayals and fight to save the loved ones she’s about to lose.

“When you love someone you can't just throw it away.”

Directed by
Tom Ford, Jason Blumenfeld
Written by
Tom Ford, Austin Wright
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
116 min
DramaThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Susan Morrow is sent a book manuscript by her ex-husband, a man she left two decades earlier, requesting her opinion on his writing. As she reads, she becomes immersed in the fictional story of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation takes a violent turn.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 274+ 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 Joan SobelShot by Seamus McgarveyScored by Lori DoDesigned by Shane ValentinoSound by Lon BenderCostumes by Arianne PhillipsStunts by Jack GillVFX by Mireille Antoine

Box Office

2016 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× 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

$29.3M

Budget$22.5M
Worldwide gross$29.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $10.7M — 36% of worldwide · International: $18.6M (64%)

Opening weekend: $493K — 5% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $854K — 8% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 37 theaters

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Also known as

  • Nocturnal Animalsde
  • Animales nocturnoses
  • Animali notturniit
  • (English)Nocturnal Animals
  • (Bulgarian)Хищници в мрака
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • ItalySep 2, 2016
  • CanadaSep 9, 2016
  • BrazilOct 1, 2016
  • United KingdomOct 14, 2016
  • UruguayOct 22, 2016

Companies

ProductionFocus Features, Fade to Black Productions, Artina Films

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