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Released
2011 · FILM

The Muppets

A devoted Muppet fan and his puppet brother team up with Kermit to reunite the disbanded Muppets and save their theater from a greedy oil magnate by putting on the biggest show of their lives.

“Get ready for Muppet domination.”

Directed by
James Bobin
Written by
Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
103 min
AdventureComedyFamily
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

Kermit the Frog and the Muppets discover that their theater is scheduled for demolition, prompting them to organize a telethon with assistance from Gary, a sympathetic human, and his felt‑faced brother Walter, in order to raise ten million dollars to preserve the venue.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 93+ 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 James ThomasShot by Don BurgessScored by Christophe BeckDesigned by Steve Saklad

Box Office

2011 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.7× 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

$165.2M

Budget$45.0M
Worldwide gross$165.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $88.6M — 54% of worldwide · International: $76.6M (46%)

Opening weekend: $12.3M — 14% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $12.3M — 14% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,440 theaters

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Also known as

  • Die Muppetsde
  • Los Muppetses
  • Les Muppets, le retourfr
  • I Muppetit

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