The Producers
They had everything to gain by not being a success!
A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.
- Director
- Susan Stroman
- Worldwide
- $38M
Who's in it
Cast
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What It's About
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A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Producers returned 0.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $45M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $38M
- Release date
- Dec 25, 2005
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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