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Released
2004 · FILM

The Phantom of the Opera

A young opera singer discovers she's been receiving secret music lessons from a mysterious figure in the Paris Opera House, but when her childhood love returns, she must choose between the haunting genius below the stage and the life above it.

“Let the fantasy begin.”

Directed by
Joel Schumacher, Terry Bamber
Written by
Gaston Leroux, Andrew Lloyd Webber
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Color
Black & White
Runtime
143 min
DramaMusicalRomance

Synopsis

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 335+ 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 Terry RawlingsShot by John MathiesonDesigned by Anthony PrattSound by Anna BehlmerCostumes by Alexandra ByrneVFX by Blondel Aidoo

Box Office

2004 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.2× 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

$154.7M

Budget$70.0M
Worldwide gross$154.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $51.3M — 33% of worldwide · International: $103.4M (67%)

Opening weekend: $2.3M — 5% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.3M — 5% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 622 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Das Phantom der Operde
  • Phantom of the Operaen
  • El fantasma de la óperaes
  • Le Fantôme de l'Opérafr
  • Il fantasma dell'Operait
  • (Bulgarian)Фантомът от операта
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United KingdomDec 6, 2004
  • SpainDec 9, 2004
  • GreeceDec 10, 2004
  • IrelandDec 10, 2004

Companies

ProductionWarner Bros., Odyssey Entertainment, Really Useful Films

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