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Released
2008 · FILM

The Flight Before Christmas

“An All-New Holiday Movie About Santa And His Little Helpers!”

Directed by
Michael Hegner, Kari Juusonen
Written by
Hannu Tuomainen, Marteinn Thorisson
Runtime
80 min
Language
FI
AdventureAnimationFamily

Synopsis

Niko is a young reindeer who dreams of flying like his father, whom he has never met. Though he is frequently teased by others, he leaves his home valley in secret to receive flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Per RisagerScored by Stephen MckeonDesigned by Antti Haikala

Box Office

2008 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.6× 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

$21.8M

Budget$6.1M
Worldwide gross$21.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Niko - Ein Rentier hebt abde
  • The Flight Before Christmasen
  • Nico, el reno que quería volares
  • Niko, le petit rennefr
  • Niko - Una renna per amicoit

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