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Released
2000 · FILM

The Little Vampire

When a lonely boy befriends a young vampire, their unlikely friendship turns into a thrilling race against time to save his family from a deadly vampire hunter.

“They're not just best friends, they're blood brothers.”

Directed by
Uli Edel
Written by
Angela Sommer Bodenburg, Karey Kirkpatrick
Runtime
95 min
AdventureComedyFamily

Synopsis

Based on the popular books, the story follows Tony, who longs for a friend to bring more adventure into his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire child with a hearty appetite. The two become inseparable, but their enjoyment is abruptly interrupted when the entire future of the vampire race may be at risk within a single night. Using his access to the daytime world, Tony helps them find what they have always desired.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Peter R AdamShot by Bernd HeinlScored by Nigel ClarkeDesigned by Joseph C Nemec Iii

Box Office

2000 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$28.0M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$28.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $13.6M — 49% of worldwide · International: $14.4M (51%)

Opening weekend: $5.7M — 42% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $6.5M — 48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,009 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Kleine Vampirde
  • El pequeño vampiroes
  • Le Petit Vampirefr
  • Il mio amico vampiroit

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