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The Ring(2002)
Released
2002 · FILM

The Ring

A determined journalist races against a cursed videotape that kills its viewers within seven days, enlisting a skeptical ex‑husband to unravel the deadly legend before she becomes its next victim.

“Before you die, you see”

Directed by
Gore Verbinski, Charles Gibson
Written by
Ehren Kruger, Koji Suzuki
Rated
FSK · FSK 16
Runtime
115 min
HorrorMystery

Synopsis

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be responsible for the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend surrounding the tape: the viewer is said to die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video and watches it, putting herself under the same deadly curse. Now she has just seven days to uncover the mystery of *The Ring* in order to save herself and her son.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 253+ 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 Craig WoodShot by Bojan BazelliScored by Hans ZimmerDesigned by Tom DuffieldCostumes by Julie WeissStunts by Keith CampbellVFX by Craig Barron

Box Office

2002 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.2× 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

$249.3M

Budget$48.0M
Worldwide gross$249.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $129.1M — 52% of worldwide · International: $120.2M (48%)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Ringde
  • The Ringde
  • El aroes
  • La llamadaes
  • La señales
  • Le Cerclefr
  • Le cercle - The ringfr
  • (English)The Ring
  • (Bulgarian)Предизвестена смърт
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesOct 2, 2002
  • CanadaOct 18, 2002
  • JapanOct 28, 2002

Companies

ProductionDreamWorks Pictures, Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation, BenderSpink

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