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Released
1990 · FILM

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter

A teenage boy re‑enters the magical realm of Fantasia to team up with its heroic horse‑rider and defeat a dark sorceress whose power threatens to erase the world forever.

“Begin an all new adventure as a young boy returns to a world of wonder on the wings of his imagination.”

Directed by
George Miller
Written by
Karin Howard, Michael Ende
Runtime
90 min
Language
DE
AdventureDramaFamily

Synopsis

Bastian is once again transported to the world of Fantasia, which he had previously helped save from destruction. Now, the land is under threat from an evil sorceress named Xayide, and Bastian must join forces with Atreyu to confront the Emptiness once more.

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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 Chris BlundenShot by David ConnellScored by Robert FolkDesigned by Robert W Laing

Box Office

1990 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$16.3M

Budget$32.0M
Worldwide gross$16.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die unendliche Geschichte 2de
  • Die unendliche Geschichte IIde
  • Die unendliche Geschichte II – Auf der Suche nach Phantásiende
  • The Neverending Story 2en
  • La historia interminable 2: El siguiente capítuloes
  • L'Histoire sans fin 2 : Un nouveau chapitrefr
  • La storia infinita 2it

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