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Released
1984 · FILM

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the gang chase their dream of turning a college revue into a Broadway hit, battling skeptical producers and the relentless hustle of New York City to prove that a frog and a pig can star on the Great White Way.

“They're coming to take on Broadway!”

Directed by
Frank Oz
Written by
Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses
Runtime
94 min
AdventureComedyDrama

Synopsis

After graduating from Danhurst College, the Muppets bring their musical senior revue to New York City, only to discover that finding a producer willing to support a show starring a frog and a pig is more difficult than expected. Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, however, refuse to accept rejection and set out to find someone who can help them bring their show to Broadway.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Evan A LottmanShot by Robert PaynterScored by Ralph BurnsDesigned by Stephen Hendrickson

Box Office

1984 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.2× 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

$25.5M

Budget$8.0M
Worldwide gross$25.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $25.5M — 100% of worldwide · International: $1K (0%)

Opening weekend: $4.4M — 17% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $8.3M — 33% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,261 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Muppets erobern Manhattande
  • Les Muppets à Manhattanfr
  • I Muppets alla conquista di Broadwayit

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