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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows(2011)
Released
2011 · FILM

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Detective Sherlock Holmes races against time to expose Professor Moriarty’s covert scheme of terrorist bombings poised to ignite a Franco‑German war, while protecting his former lover Irene Adler and thwarting assassins determined to silence the truth.

“The game is afoot.”

Directed by
Guy Ritchie
Written by
Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
129 min
ActionAdventureMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A new criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty, is at large; he is Sherlock Holmes’s intellectual equal, and his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 64+ 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 James HerbertShot by Philippe RousselotScored by Hans ZimmerDesigned by Sarah Greenwood

Box Office

2011 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.7× 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

$334.6M

Budget$125.0M
Worldwide gross$334.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $186.8M — 56% of worldwide · International: $147.8M (44%)

Opening weekend: $58.8M — 31% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $58.8M — 31% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,703 theaters

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Also known as

  • Sherlock Holmes 2de
  • Sherlock Holmes 2 - Spiel im Schattende
  • Sherlock Holmes: Spiel im Schattende
  • Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game Of Shadowsen
  • Sherlock Holmes: Juego de sombrases
  • Sherlock Holmes : Jeu d'ombresfr
  • Sherlock Holmes 2 : Jeu d'ombresfr
  • Sherlock Holmes - Gioco di ombreit

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