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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2009)
Released
2009 · FILM

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

A disgraced journalist teams with a brilliant hacker to uncover a decades‑old family murder, exposing deadly secrets that could destroy a powerful dynasty and cost them their lives.

“Based on the Worldwide Best Seller”

Directed by
Niels Arden Oplev
Written by
Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
152 min
Language
SV
CrimeDramaMystery

Synopsis

A Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel, the film follows a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger to solve a cold case—the disappearance of Vanger's niece.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 63+ 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 Anne SterudShot by Eric KressScored by Jacob GrothDesigned by Niels Sejer

Box Office

2009 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.4× 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

$109.4M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$109.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $10.1M — 9% of worldwide · International: $99.3M (91%)

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Also known as

  • Stieg Larsson: Verblendungde
  • Verblendungde
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattooen
  • Los hombres que no amaban a las mujereses
  • Milléniumfr
  • Millenium: Uomini che odiano le donneit
  • Uomini che odiano le donneit

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