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Released
2007 · FILM

The Water Horse

A lonely Scottish boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a legendary water horse, and must keep the magical creature hidden while battling skeptical adults and dangerous forces determined to destroy it.

“How do you keep a secret this big?”

Directed by
Jay Russell
Written by
Robert Nelson Jacobs, Dick King Smith
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
112 min
AdventureFamilyFantasy

Synopsis

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 36

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 Mark WarnerShot by Oliver StapletonScored by James Newton HowardDesigned by Tony Burrough

Box Office

2007 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.6× 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

$104.0M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$104.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $40.9M — 39% of worldwide · International: $63.0M (61%)

Opening weekend: $7.6M — 19% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.6M — 19% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,772 theaters

Also known as

  • Mein Freund, der Wasserdrachede
  • Le Dragon des mers - la dernière légendeen
  • The Water Horseen
  • Le Dragon des mers : La Dernière Légendefr
  • The Water Horse - La leggenda degli abissiit

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