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Released
2009 · FILM

Shorts

“NOT SO TALL tales from the director of Spy Kids.”

Directed by
Robert Rodriguez
Written by
Robert Rodriguez, Alvaro Rodriguez
Runtime
89 min
AdventureComedyFamily

Synopsis

When a young boy discovers a vibrant, wish-granting rock, it sparks widespread chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls, as both envious children and ambitious adults seek to claim it for themselves.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Ethan ManiquisShot by Manfred GutheScored by George OldzieyDesigned by Steve Joyner

Box Office

2009 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$29.0M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$29.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $20.9M — 72% of worldwide · International: $8.1M (28%)

Opening weekend: $6.4M — 31% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $8.7M — 42% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,105 theaters

Also known as

  • Das Geheimnis des Regenbogensteinsde
  • La Pièdra Magicaes
  • Il mistero della pietra magicait

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