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Shaun of the Dead(2004)
Released
2004 · FILM

Shaun of the Dead

Shaun, a down-on-his-luck Londoner, must rise above his failures and team up with his slacker best friend to survive a sudden zombie apocalypse and rescue the people he loves.

“A romantic comedy. With zombies.”

Directed by
Edgar Wright
Written by
Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
99 min
ComedyHorror
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Shaun leads a quiet, uneventful life centered around his girlfriend, his mother, and his local pub. This peaceful routine is disrupted when the dead rise and begin aggressively targeting ordinary Londoners.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 70+ 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 Chris DickensShot by David M DunlapScored by Dan MudfordDesigned by Marcus Rowland

Box Office

2004 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.6× 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

$39.4M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$39.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $13.7M — 35% of worldwide · International: $25.7M (65%)

Opening weekend: $3.3M — 24% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.5M — 33% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 607 theaters

Re-release box office

2024256 theaters
$1.4M($1.5M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Shaun of the Deadde
  • L'alba dei morti dementiit

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