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Released
2012 · FILM

Tad: The Lost Explorer

“No whip, no gun... All fun!”

Directed by
Enrique Gato
Written by
Javier Lopez Barreira, Gorka Magallon
Runtime
92 min
Language
ES
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

Tad is an aspiring archaeologist and adventurer who idolizes the legendary explorer Max Mordon, though in reality he is a construction worker from Chicago. When he is mistakenly believed to be a professor, he is invited to join an expedition to Peru in search of the fabled lost city of Paititi.

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Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Alexander AdamsScored by Zacarias M De La Riva

Box Office

2012 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.2× 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

$23.0M

Budget$10.5M
Worldwide gross$23.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Tad Stones - Der verlorene Jäger des Schatzes!de
  • Tad, The Lost Exploreren
  • Tad l'explorateur : À la recherche de la cité perduefr
  • Le avventure di Taddeo l'esploratoreit

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