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TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY | 35th Anniversary Trailer | STUDIOCANAL

Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991)
Released
1991 · FILM

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

A reprogrammed Terminator protects a young John Connor from a shape-shifting assassin in 1995 Los Angeles, forcing his delusional mother to confront the truth about her son's future and the impending apocalypse.

“It's nothing personal.”

Directed by
James Cameron
Written by
James Cameron, William Wisher
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
137 min
ActionAdventureSci-Fi

Synopsis

Ten years after the events of the original film, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Joining forces with his mother, Sarah, the T-800 works to prevent Skynet from initiating a nuclear apocalypse.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 77+ 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 Conrad Buff IvShot by Adam GreenbergScored by Brad FiedelDesigned by Joseph C Nemec Iii

Box Office

1991 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.1× 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

$517.8M

Budget$102.0M
Worldwide gross$517.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $204.8M — 40% of worldwide · International: $312.9M (60%)

Opening weekend: $20.5M — 10% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $20.5M — 10% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,274 theaters

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Re-release box office

20265 theaters
$29K($29K today)
2017371 theaters
$1.8M($2.4M today)
Total re-release
$1.8M

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

Full synopsis

Other versions & cuts

  • Terminator 2: Judgment DayDirector's Cut

These are distinct edits of the film. Their own runtime and release year aren’t on file yet — we only have the alternate title so far.

Also known as

  • Terminator 2 – Tag der Abrechnungde
  • Terminator II - Tag der Abrechnungde
  • Terminator 2: Judgement Dayen
  • Terminator 2: el juicio finales
  • Terminator 2 : Le Jugement dernierfr
  • Terminator 2 - Il giorno del giudizioit

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