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War of the Worlds(2005)
Released
2005 · FILM

War of the Worlds

A self-absorbed longshoreman must protect his estranged children when a mysterious storm unleashes an alien threat determined to claim Earth.

“They're already here.”

Directed by
Steven Spielberg, David Michael Latt
Written by
Josh Friedman, David Koepp
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
117 min
ActionAdventureSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • AMC+

Synopsis

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and imperfect father. Shortly after his ex-wife and her new husband leave his teenage son and young daughter for a weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm descends.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 44+ 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 David Michael LattShot by Steven ParkerScored by Ralph RieckermannDesigned by Rachael Rose Luckey

Box Office

2005 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.6× 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

$603.9M

Budget$132.0M
Worldwide gross$603.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $234.3M — 39% of worldwide · International: $369.6M (61%)

Opening weekend: $35.7M — 15% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $35.7M — 15% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,908 theaters

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Also known as

  • Krieg der Weltende
  • Guerra de los Mundoses
  • La Guerre des mondesfr
  • La guerra dei mondiit

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