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Released
2006 · FILM

The Ant Bully

A 10-year-old boy who takes out his anger on ants is shrunk to their size by a magical elixir and forced to work in the colony he wronged.

“The battle for the lawn is on.”

Directed by
John A Davis, John A Davis Nm0204884
Written by
John A Davis, John Nickle
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
89 min
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard—until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of damaging their home, Lucas is sentenced to hard labor in the ant colony. As he struggles to adapt to his new life underground, he must also find a way to reverse the effects of the elixir and return to his normal size.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Jon PriceShot by Ken MitchroneyScored by John DebneyDesigned by Barry E Jackson

Box Office

2006 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$55.2M

Budget$50.0M
Worldwide gross$55.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $28.1M — 51% of worldwide · International: $27.1M (49%)

Opening weekend: $8.4M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $14.3M — 51% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,050 theaters

Also known as

  • Lucas der Ameisenschreckde
  • Lucas, fourmi malgré luifr
  • Ant Bully - Una vita da formicait

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