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Released
2005 · FILM

Zathura: A Space Adventure

Two feuding brothers must navigate a deadly, sentient board game that launches their home into deep space, racing against cosmic hazards to finish the game and return safely to Earth.

“Adventure is waiting.”

Directed by
Jon Favreau
Written by
Chris Van Allsburg, David Koepp
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
101 min
ActionAdventureComedy

Synopsis

After their father goes to work, brothers Walter and Danny are left under the supervision of their teenage sister Lisa and instructed to remain indoors. Expecting a dull day, they become surprised when they start playing Zathura, a space‑themed board game that proves to have supernatural abilities as their house is launched into space. With assistance from an astronaut, the boys work to get back home.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Dan LebentalShot by Guillermo NavarroScored by John DebneyDesigned by J Michael Riva

Box Office

2005 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.0× 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

$65.1M

Budget$65.0M
Worldwide gross$65.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $29.3M — 45% of worldwide · International: $35.8M (55%)

Opening weekend: $13.4M — 46% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $15.2M — 52% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,223 theaters

Also known as

  • Zathura - Ein Abenteuer im Weltraumde
  • Zathura : Une aventure spatialefr
  • Zathura - Un'avventura spazialeit

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