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Rio(2011)
Released
2011 · FILM

Rio

A pampered blue macaw forced out of his Minnesota home must brave the jungles of Rio to reunite with the last female of his kind, all while evading ruthless bird smugglers who will stop at nothing to capture him.

“1 out of every 8 Americans is afraid of flying. Most of them don't have feathers.”

Directed by
Carlos Saldanha
Written by
Don Rhymer, Joshua Sternin
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
96 min
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 77+ 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 Harry HitnerShot by Renato FalcaoScored by John PowellDesigned by Pete Oswald

Box Office

2011 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.4× 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

$483.9M

Budget$90.0M
Worldwide gross$483.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $143.6M — 30% of worldwide · International: $340.2M (70%)

Opening weekend: $39.2M — 27% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $54.5M — 38% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,826 theaters

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Also known as

  • Riode
  • Ríoes

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