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Released
2017 · FILM

The Boss Baby

Tim, a creative 7½-year-old, must team up with his eccentric baby brother, who secretly leads a corporate war between infants and adults, to stop a sinister plot before his family is lost forever.

“Born leader.”

Directed by
Tom Mcgrath, Tom Mcgrath Nm0569891
Written by
Michael Mccullers, Marla Frazee
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
97 min
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

A story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7-year-old named Tim.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 31

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 James RyanScored by Steve MazzaroDesigned by David James

Box Office

2017 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.2× 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

$528.0M

Budget$125.0M
Worldwide gross$528.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $175.0M — 33% of worldwide · International: $353.0M (67%)

Opening weekend: $50.2M — 29% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $63.1M — 36% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,773 theaters

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Also known as

  • The Boss Babyde
  • Boss Babyen
  • Baby Bossfr
  • Baby Bossit
  • The Baby Bossit

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ProductionDreamWorks Animation

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