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Released
2008 · FILM

The Day the Earth Stood Still

When a mysterious sphere from an 1928 Karakoram expedition reappears as a massive alien ship hurtling toward Earth, a brilliant scientist and her team must broker first contact in Manhattan before the extraterrestrial threat detonates humanity’s extinction.

“We thought the Earth was ours. We were wrong.”

Directed by
Scott Derrickson, Chad Belair
Written by
David Scarpa, Edmund H North
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Format
Shot on 35mm film
Runtime
104 min
AdventureDramaSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Fubo
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Klaatu is a representative of an alien race that underwent significant evolution to survive its own climate change. He arrives on Earth to evaluate whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage it has caused. When denied the opportunity to address the United Nations, he concludes that humankind must be exterminated to ensure the planet's survival.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 907+ 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 Wayne WahrmanShot by David TattersallScored by Tyler BatesDesigned by David BrisbinSound by Scott AitkenCostumes by Tish MonaghanStunts by Steve M DavisonVFX by Thomas Boland

Box Office

2008 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.9× 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

$233.1M

Budget$80.0M
Worldwide gross$233.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $79.4M — 34% of worldwide · International: $153.7M (66%)

Opening weekend: $30.5M — 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $38.5M — 48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,560 theaters

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Also known as

  • Der Tag, an dem die Erde stillstandde
  • Le Jour où la Terre s'arrêtafr
  • Ultimatum alla Terrait

Production & Distribution

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3 Arts Entertainment

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