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Yes Man(2008)
Released
2008 · FILM

Yes Man

A despondent bank loan officer, urged to answer “yes” to every request, embarks on a wild, high‑stakes odyssey through Los Angeles that forces him to confront his isolation and decide whether embracing chaos will finally revive his life.

“One word can change everything.”

Directed by
Paxton Reed, Peyton Reed
Written by
Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
104 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

Carl Allen, a man whose life appears to be stagnant, enrolls in a self-help program centered around a single principle: say yes to everything and anything.

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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 Craig AlpertShot by Robert D YeomanScored by Mark Oliver EverettDesigned by Andrew Laws

Box Office

2008 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.2× 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

$223.2M

Budget$70.0M
Worldwide gross$223.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $97.7M — 44% of worldwide · International: $125.5M (56%)

Opening weekend: $18.3M — 19% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $33.1M — 34% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,434 theaters

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  • Der Ja-Sagerde

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