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Released
2017 · FILM

The Star

“It takes many tails to tell the greatest story ever.”

Directed by
Timothy Reckart
Written by
Carlos Kotkin, Simon Moore
Runtime
86 min
AdventureAnimationComedy
Streaming on
  • HBO Max

Synopsis

A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the greatest story ever told: the first Christmas.

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How many hands made this film

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 Pam ZiegenhagenScored by John PaesanoDesigned by Craig Elliott

Box Office

2017 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.3× 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

$62.8M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$62.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $40.9M — 65% of worldwide · International: $22.0M (35%)

Opening weekend: $9.8M — 24% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $15.2M — 37% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,837 theaters

Also known as

  • Bo und der Weihnachtssternde
  • La estrella de Belenes
  • L'Étoile de Noëlfr
  • Gli eroi del Nataleit

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