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Released
2011 · FILM

Shark Night

A group of friends seeking a relaxing lake‑house getaway must fight for survival when deadly freshwater sharks turn their weekend paradise into a blood‑soaked nightmare.

Terror runs deep.

Directed by
Runtime
91 min
ActionHorrorThriller

Synopsis

A weekend getaway at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf becomes a nightmare for seven vacationers when they are attacked by freshwater sharks.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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 Dennis VirklerShot by Gary CapoScored by Graeme RevellDesigned by Jaymes Hinkle

Box Office

2011 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× 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

$41.4M

Budget$28.0M
Worldwide gross$41.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $18.9M 46% of worldwide · International: $22.5M (54%)

Opening weekend: $8.4M 45% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $11.3M60% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,806 theaters

Also known as

  • Shark Nighten
  • Shark 3Dfr

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