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Tropic Thunder(2008)
Released
2008 · FILM

Tropic Thunder

A frazzled director must wrangle an out‑of‑control star‑studded cast while filming a chaotic Vietnam memoir in the jungle, or see his project canceled.

“Get Some.”

Directed by
Ben Stiller
Written by
Justin Theroux, Ben Stiller
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
107 min
ActionComedyWar

Synopsis

A group of self-absorbed actors embarks on a project to create the most expensive war film ever made. As production costs spiral out of control, the studio is forced to cancel the movie. Undeterred, the frustrated director continues filming, taking the cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they face real adversaries.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 81+ 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 Greg HaydenShot by John TollScored by Theodore ShapiroDesigned by Jeff Mann

Box Office

2008 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× 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

$195.7M

Budget$92.0M
Worldwide gross$195.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $110.5M — 56% of worldwide · International: $85.2M (44%)

Opening weekend: $11.0M — 10% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $11.0M — 10% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,319 theaters

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Also known as

  • Tropic Thunderde
  • Tropic Thunder - Hol Dir die volle Dröhnung!de
  • Tonnerre sous les tropiquesfr

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