Night at the Museum (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

Night at the Museum is a 2006 fantasy comedy film directed by Shawn Levy and written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. It is based on the 1993 children s book of the same name by Croatian illustrator Milan Trenc. The film had an ensemble cast of Ben Stiller in the lead role, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, and Robin Williams. It tells the story of a divorced father who applies for a job as a night watchman at New York City s American Museum of Natural History and subsequently discovers that the exhibits, animated by a magical Egyptian artifact, come to life at night. 20th Century Fox released the film on December 22, 2006, and it grossed $574.5 million worldwide, becoming the 5th highest-grossing film of 2006, but received mixed reviews from critics.

Two sequels were released: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian in 2009, and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb in 2014. An animated sequel, Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again, is also scheduled to be released in 2022 for the streaming service Disney+.

Plot

In Brooklyn, Larry Daley s unstable work history makes his ex-wife, Erica, consider him a bad example to their ten-year-old son, Nick. Larry worries that Nick admires Erica s boyfriend Don more than him. To improve his financial stability, Larry applies for a job as night security guard at the Museum of Natural History. Retiring guard Cecil Fredericks hires Larry, despite his unpromising résumé. The museum, facing declining attendance and revenue, is replacing Cecil and his two colleagues, Gus and Reginald, with only one guard. Cecil gives Larry an instruction manual on museum security and warns him not to let anything in... or out .

On his first night, Larry discovers that after sunset, the exhibits come to life, including a playful Tyrannosaurus skeleton nicknamed Rexy ; a mischievous stuffed capuchin monkey named Dexter; various African animals; rival miniature civilizations portraying the Old West, Ancient Rome, and Ancient Maya; an Easter Island Moai obsessed with chewing gum; wax models of various historical figures, including the violent Attila the Hun; an army of American Civil War soldiers, and four pyromaniacal Neanderthals. There is also Sacagawea, who, unlike the other exhibits, is encased in glass. A mounted Teddy Roosevelt rescues Larry from miniature leaders Jedediah and Octavius, who are attacking him. Teddy explains that ever since an ancient Egyptian artifact – the Golden Tablet of Pharaoh Ahkmenrah – was brought to the museum in 1952, the exhibits have come to life each night. If any exhibit figure is outside the museum at sunrise, they turn to dust. As Teddy helps Larry restore order, Larry learns that Teddy loves Sacagawea but is too shy to speak to her through the glass.

The next morning, Cecil, Reginald, and Gus return to check on Larry, but Larry says he is quitting. When Nick and Don stop by the museum to congratulate Larry on his new job, Larry decides to stay for his son s sake. To help him with the job, Cecil advises reading up on history.

That night, Larry better controls the exhibits, but the four Neanderthals set their display on fire while Dexter steals Larry s keys. As Larry extinguishes the fire, Dexter unlocks a window. One of the Neanderthals sees a trash bin fire on the street below and leaps out the window. Larry, frustrated with everything going awry, once again decides to quit. As he walks out, the Christopher Columbus statue gestures to where the Neanderthal escaped. Larry runs outside just as the rising sun disintegrates the Neanderthal into dust. Later that morning, museum director Dr. McPhee fires Larry over the damaged Neanderthal exhibit, though Larry convinces him to reconsider. Larry meets Rebecca Hutman, an attractive museum guide and historian. When he offers to introduce her to Sacagawea to help with her doctoral research, Rebecca believes Larry is mocking her.

One night, Larry brings Nick to the museum to show him the exhibits, but nothing comes to life. They discover Cecil, Gus, and Reginald stealing the tablet and other valuable artifacts. They have disabled the tablet to prevent the exhibits from interfering. Like the exhibits, the guards receive enhanced vitality from the tablet and intend to frame Larry for the thefts. Larry has Nick reactivate the tablet, then tells him to run and hide. After a chase, Cecil locks up Nick and Larry in the Egyptian room and steals back the tablet. Larry releases Ahkmenrah s mummy from his sarcophagus. The pharaoh then helps Larry and Nick escape. When the three find the other exhibits fighting each other, Larry convinces them to unite to catch the guards and recover the tablet.

The Civil War soldiers, Neanderthals, and Christopher Columbus capture Gus and Reginald. Cecil escapes in a stagecoach and is about to run over Sacagawea. Teddy pushes her aside but he is run over and sliced in half. Larry, Nick, Ahkmenrah, Jed, Octavius, Rexy, and Attila pursue Cecil to Central Park, where they stop him and regain the tablet. Sacagawea repairs Teddy with warm wax. Rebecca arrives and sees the exhibits returning to the museum before sunrise and realizes the truth. The next day, McPhee fires Larry after news reports about strange events happening around the museum – such as cave paintings in the museum s subway station, dinosaur tracks in Central Park, and cavemen sightings. However, when the publicity significantly increases the museum s attendance, McPhee rehires Larry. That night, Larry, Nick, and the exhibits celebrate.

During the end credits, Cecil, Gus and Reginald are seen working as the museum janitors as punishment for their crimes.

Cast

Humans

• Ben Stiller as Lawrence Larry Daley, a night-shift security guard at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Nick s father, and Erica s former husband.
• Carla Gugino as Rebecca Hutman, a museum docent.
• Dick Van Dyke as Cecil Fredericks, a veteran security guard.
• Mickey Rooney as Gus, a veteran security guard, who takes an instant dislike to Larry.
• Bill Cobbs as Reginald, a veteran security guard.
• Jake Cherry as Nicholas Nick Daley, Larry s and Erica s son.
• Ricky Gervais as Dr. McPhee, the curator of the Museum of Natural History and Larry s boss.
• Kim Raver as Erica Daley, Larry s former wife and Nick s mother.
• Charlie Murphy as the taxi-driver.
• Paul Rudd as Don, Erica s fiancé.
• Anne Meara as Debbie.

Exhibits

• Robin Williams as a wax model of Theodore Roosevelt, an exhibit who befriends Larry.
• Patrick Gallagher as a wax model of Attila the Hun, an exhibit who antagonizes Larry at first.
• Rami Malek as the mummy of Ahkmenrah, a pharaoh who is the owner of the tablet.
• Pierfrancesco Favino as a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus, an Italian-speaking exhibit whose name Larry consistently forgets.
• Steve Coogan as Octavius, a miniature Roman general figure.
• Mizuo Peck as a polyurethane wax model of Sacagawea. Theodore Roosevelt develops a crush on her.
• Owen Wilson as Jedediah, a miniature cowboy figure (uncredited and only credited in the rest of the film series)
• Kerry van der Griend, Dan Rizzuto, Matthew Harrison, and Jody Racicot as the wax models of Neanderthals
• Martin Christopher as a wax model Meriwether Lewis
• Martin Sims as a wax model of William Clark
• Randy Lee, Darryl Quon, Gerald Wong, and Paul Chih-Ping Cheng as the wax models of the Huns
• Brad Garrett as the voice of the Easter Island Head
• Crystal the Monkey as Dexter, a stuffed Capuchin monkey

Production

The building featured in the film, which was constructed on a sound stage in Burnaby, British Columbia, is based on the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, external shots of which were used in the movie.

Trainers spent several weeks training Crystal, who plays the troublemaking monkey Dexter, to slap and bite Stiller in the film.

Director Shawn Levy credited Ben Stiller for the ensemble cast: When actors hear that Ben Stiller is in a movie they want to work with him. It a high-water mark and it absolutely draws actors in and I m convinced that s a big part of why we got this cast.

Music

Songs

• Friday Night - performed by McFly; not featured in American version of the film, but heard in some international cuts, used during the end credits. It can be heard on the American DVD on the Spanish dub.
• September - performed by Earth, Wind and Fire; used before the end credits where everyone in the museum is partying.
• Weapon of Choice - performed by Fatboy Slim; used in the scene where Larry returns to the museum for his second night and is preparing for the chaos.
• Tonight - performed by Keke Palmer featuring Cham; used for the end credits.
• An instrumental version of Mandy by Barry Manilow is used when Larry is standing in the elevator, while escaping from Attila the Hun.
• Ezekiel Saw Them Dry Bones is the tune Larry whistles as he passes the empty T. rex exhibit on his first night.
• Camptown Races by Stephen Foster is sung by the townspeople of the American West miniature diorama. This is a period-correct song.

Score

Alan Silvestri replaced John Ottman as score composer. Silvestri s score was used for the teaser trailer of Horton Hears a Who!

Night at the Museum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film score by Alan Silvestri
Released	December 19, 2006
Recorded	2006
Genre	Film score
Length	53:19
Label	Varèse Sarabande

Track list

Varèse Sarabande released a soundtrack album of the score on December 19, 2006.

All tracks are written by Alan Silvestri.

Night at the Museum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

No.	Title	Length
1.	Night at the Museum	02:35
2.	One of Those Days	00:49
3.	An Ordinary Guy?	01:27
4.	Tour of the Museum	02:35
5.	Civil War Soldiers	04:08
6.	Out of Africa	01:07
7.	Meet Dexter	01:27
8.	Mayan Warriors	00:57
9.	Where s Rexy?	00:48
10.	West from Africa	01:49
11.	The Iron Horse	01:06
12.	Saved by Teddy	01:57
13.	Tablet of Akmenrah	00:37
14.	Tracking, Dear Boy	01:08
15.	Some Men Are Born Great	00:50
16.	Sunrise	00:42
17.	Study Up on History	02:15
18.	Teddy Likes Sacagawea	01:53
19.	Tearing Limbs	01:45
20.	Caveman on Fire	00:43
21.	Outrun the Sun	00:58
22.	Show You What I Do	02:55
23.	Tablet s Gone	02:45
24.	Theodore Roosevelt at Your Service	01:11
25.	This Is Your Moment	02:10
26.	Rally the Troops	01:07
27.	Tree Take Down	01:21
28.	Cecil s Escape	01:26
29.	Stage Coach	02:28
30.	Teddy in Two	01:18
31.	Cab Ride	00:50
32.	Big Fan	01:03
33.	Heroes Return	00:54
34.	A Great Man	00:57
35.	Full House	01:21
Total length:		53:19

Release

Night at the Museum had its premiere in New York City on December 17, 2006. It was later released on December 22, 2006 in the United States, December 26, 2006 in UK, January 12, 2007 in Brazil, on February 14, 2007 in China and on March 17, 2007 in Japan.

Reception

Box office

At the end of its box office run, Night at the Museum earned a gross of $250.9 million in the US and Canada and $323.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $574.5 million. It was the fifth highest-grossing film of 2006 and also the highest-grossing film worldwide of the trilogy.

It was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend, grossing $30.8 million and playing in 3,685 theaters, with a $8,258 per-theater average. For the four-day Christmas holiday weekend, it took in $42.2 million. The movie was also released in IMAX large screen format, often on site at museums of science or natural history such as the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.

In its second weekend, Night at the Museum expanded into 83 more theaters for a total of 3,768, and took in approximately $36.7 million, out-grossing its opening weekend. It maintained the top position in its third week, with an additional $23.7 million.

During its international opening weekend of December 22, 2006, the film grossed a figure of estimated $5 million, with the highest debut coming from South Korea ($5.04 million). The biggest market in the other territories were the UK, Japan, South Korea, and Germany, where it grossed $40.8 million, $30 million, $25.7 million, $22.9 million.

Critical response

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Night at the Museum has an approval rating of 44% based on 140 reviews and an average rating of 5.30/10. The site s critical consensus read, Parents might call this either a spectacle-filled adventure or a shallow and vapid CG-fest, depending on whether they choose to embrace this on the same level as their kids. As of October 2020, on Metacritic, the film had a score of 48 out of 100 based on 28 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews . CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the film an average grade of A− on an A+ to F scale.

Justin Chang of Variety magazine wrote: This rambunctious, Jumanji -style extravaganza is a gallery of special effects in search of a story; rarely has so much production value yielded so little in terms of audience engagement. James Berardinelli of Reelviews gave it 2 stars out of 4, and commented on Stiller s performance by stating It might be fair to give Ben Stiller an A for effort, but to call what he does in this movie acting is a misnomer. He does a lot of running around, occasionally falling down or bumping into things. One positive review by William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, gave it a B−, and stated that the film was Out to impress and delight a family audience with the pageantry of human and natural history, and that s a surprisingly worthy ambition for a Hollywood comedy.

Museum officials at the American Museum of Natural History have credited the film for increasing the number of visitors during the holiday season by almost 20%. According to a museum official, between December 22, 2006, and January 2, 2007, there were 50,000 more visitors than during the same period the prior year.

Home media

The film was released on a 2-Disc DVD edition in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2007. It was released on 1-Disc and 2-Disc DVD editions and Blu-ray Disc format on April 24, 2007 elsewhere.

The film became the first non-Disney film to be reviewed by Ultimate Disney (now known as DVDizzy.com), due to the website dealing with other studios besides Disney.

As of 6 December 2009, the film has sold 9,191,694 DVDs and grossed $153,566,058 in DVD sales.

Awards

Award	Category	Nominee	Result	Ref.
Saturn Awards	Best Fantasy Film	—	Nominated
ASCAP Award	Top Box Office Films	Alan Silvestri	Won
Artios	Best Feature Film Casting - Comedy	Ilene Starger Coreen Mayrs (Vancouver casting) Heike Brandstatter (Vancouver casting)	Won
Kids Choice Awards	Favorite Movie	—	Nominated
MTV Movie Award	Best Comedic Performance	Ben Stiller	Nominated
National Movie Award	Best Comedy	—	Nominated
Teen Choice Award	Choice Movie: Comedy and Choice Movie Actor: Comedy	Ben Stiller	Nominated
Taurus Award	Hardest Hit	Greg Fitzpatrick	Nominated
Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actor Age Ten or Younger	Jake Cherry	Nominated

Sequels

Night at the Museum was followed by a sequel titled Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, which was released on May 22, 2009 in North America. A third film, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, was released on December 19, 2014 in North America.

In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter stated that the Alibaba Pictures Group intended to remake the film. On August 6, 2019, following the purchase of 21st Century Fox and its assets by The Walt Disney Company, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that a fully animated sequel of Night at the Museum is in development. The project will be released as a Disney+ exclusive film, as a co-production between Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and 20th Century Studios.

In October 2020, the movie was officially titled Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again, with production beginning on November 2, 2020, and Shawn Levy serving as executive producer. While the majority of the original cast were initially not expected to return.

Condition

New

Publisher

20Th Century Fox

Published Date

2007

Age Group

Adult

Rating MPA

Pg

Recording Studio

20Th Century Fox

Format

DVD

Brand

Twentieth Century Fox Home Ent

Amazon ASIN

B000NOKJC2

UPC / EAN

024543417170

Size

7.5" x 5.25" x .50"

Year

2006

ReleaseDate

2006-12-22

RuntimeMins

108

RuntimeStr

1h 48min

Awards

Awards, 2 wins & 8 nominations

Directors

Shawn Levy

Writers

Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon, Milan Trenc

Stars

Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Ricky Gervais

Produced by

Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Thomas M. Hammel, Shawn Levy, Josh McLaglen, Tom McNulty, Mark Radcliffe, Ira Shuman, Ellen Somers

Music by

Alan Silvestri

Cinematography by

Guillermo Navarro

Film Editing by

Don Zimmerman

Casting By

Ilene Starger

Production Design by

Claude Paré

Art Direction by

Steve Arnold, Michael Diner, Helen Jarvis, Bridget McGuire, Michele Laliberte

Set Decoration by

Lin MacDonald

Costume Design by

Renée April

Makeup Department

Kate Biscoe, Michel Bougie, Dorothee Deichmann, Victoria Down, Mike Fields, Bruno Gatien, Franck Gauthier, John L. Healy, Michelle Johnson, Sherry Linder-Gygli, Maryann Marchetti, Cheri Minns, Adrien Morot, Nina Paskowitz, Kathy Tse, Mark Unterberger, Bev Wright, Gitte Axen, Susan Boyd, Stacey Butterworth, Joel Echallier, Leslie Graham, Sarah Graham, Dallas Hartnett, Teresa A. Meyer, Geoff Redknap, Wendy Snowdon, Sylvania Yau

Production Management

Louis J. Anderson, Andrea Boorman, Thomas M. Hammel, Ray Quinlan, Ira Shuman, Anne M. Simonet, Michael Williams, Charlie Davis

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Misha Bukowski, Allison Chretien, Mathew Dunne, Sam Harris, Deanna Leslie, Tim Macarthur, Dan Mansfield, Josh McLaglen, Christo Morse, Jim Rygiel, Marty Eli Schwartz, Brian Smrz, Rhonda Taylor, Michael Collins, Douglas Dean III, Gary Hawes, Ivana Siska

Art Department

Joseph Alfieri, Martine Bacon, Marc Baird, Chris Beach, Michael A. Billings, Ea Birkett, Derek Bobroff, Peter Bodnarus, Rob Boulet, Eve Boulonne, Keith Burk, Glenn Bydwell, Loree Cameron, Mendoza Jose Carrillo, Scott Clatney, Colin Comeau, John Dale, Luc De Schutter, Joseph Deluca, Hoka Duquette, Dave Emmonds, Donald Engel, Bruce Frankel, Steve Fratianni, Ellen Freund, Alain Giguère, Doug Girling, Brent Godek, Robert Griffon Jr., Matthew Hudolin, Michael Anthony Jackson, Brad Jansen, Zoe Jirik, Jan Kobylka, John Kobylka, Ken Laderoute, Ray Raygun Lai, Félix Larivière-Charron, Scott R. Lee, Eric Lewin, JoJo Li, Lydia Marks, John McDonnell, Mélanie McNicoll, Dale Menzies, Steve Miller, Tiara Motem, Rob Nicholson, Claudio Palavecino, Julio Daniel Rodriguez, Elizabeth Schula, Stephen Siersema, Patricia Sprott, Jennifer B. Starke, Rodney Sterbenz, John Wright Stevens, Peter Sysoev, Mario Tomas-Niedworok, Grant Van Der Slagt, Bruce Van Slyke, Stephen Vance, Chris Vogt, Ross Wahl, John Clair Watts, Dave Weinman, Tracey Wilson, Vernon Winn, Caroline Alder, Tom Baleshta, Brent Bennett, Martine Bilodeau, Lubor Cencak, John Chaschowy, Darrin Clubb, Janice Lynn Coats, James Dickson, Bill Earle, Warren Flanagan, Amanda J. Flick, Jack Gauvreau, Mathieu Giguère, Paul Goodwin, Seth Goulden, Geoff Hilliard, Bill Holmquist, Billy Iiams Jr., Patrick Kearns, Chris Klein, Jason B. Landels, Janis Lee, Andrew Li, Bill Luckey, Rohan Lyal, Max Matsuoka, Sam McGowan, Jean-François Merlot, Sheila Millar, Trong-Kim Nguyen, Ira Proctor, Hamish Purdy, Michel Rheault, Jay Robinson, Guy Roland, Andrew Semple, Dean Sherriff, Fraser Stepanick, Jeremy Thompson, Sharon Thompson, Michael Toby, Alex Touikan, Grant Van Der Slagt, Judi Varga, Lori West, Sean Will, Barbara Wilson, Milena Zdravkovic

Sound Department

Gary Alper, James Ashwill, John T. Cucci, Susan Dawes, Yann Delpuech, Geoff Ethridge, Peter Fonda, David Giammarco, Tim Gomillion, Detlef Halaski, Warren Hendriks, Craig Henighan, Mike Hibberson, Larry Hopkins, Mildred Iatrou, R.J. Kizer, Dave Kulczycki, John A. Larsen, Skip Longfellow, David Lucarelli, Helen Luttrell, Paul Massey, Tim Maxwell, John Murray, Dan O Connell, Jordan O Neill, Matt Patterson, Paul Pavelka, Erin Michael Rettig, Charleen Richards, Dennis Rogers, Karen Schell, William Stein, Donald Sylvester, Rob Young, Jerry Yuen, Carlie Bergman, Derek Casari, Chuck Michael, Douglas Murray, Onofre Ortega, John Soukup, Trent Stewart, Jason Tuttle

Special Effects by

Michael Bird, Dennis Briest, André Dominguez, Katherine Fraser, Gilbert H. Gertsen, Steve Hepworth, Graham S. Hollins, Steven Kirshoff, Ian Korver, William H. Orr, W.A. Andrew Sculthorp, Grant Smith, Scott R. Treliving, John Wilkinson, Teresa Wilkinson, Phillip Beck, Kevin Carter, Dave Dunaway, Shaun Noelte, Stefan Rambousek, Fred Simon, Gene Turnbow, Andrew Verhoeven, Shraga Weiss, Dennis Yeager II

Visual Effects by

Tony Abejuro, Simon Ager, Imran Ahmed, Amit Aidasani, Casey Allen, Jeff Allen, Vinicio Alvarez, Austen Armus, Ray Arnett, Kenneth Au, Rob Au, Derrick Auyoung, Kunal Ayer, Michael Backauskas, Randall Bahnsen, Kevin Baillie, Bhavika Bajpai, Anthony Baker, Adam Balentine, Saraswathi Balgam, Chris Banal, Tony Barraza, Simeon Bassett, Brian Bell, Philip Benn, Lee Berger, Chris Bergman, Renee Binkowski, Edu Black, Pavani Rao Boddapati, Tiffany Borchardt, Guy Botham, Jennifer Bourne, Tom Bradley, David M. Breaux Jr., Matthew Brown, Sue Brunell-Edwards, Wendell Bruno, Josh Bryer, Alexandra Bryman, Jud Bumpas, Brian Burks, Craig Calvert, Jessika Canizalez, Craig Cannon, Pete Capelluto, Kevin Carney, Damien Carr, M.B. Chaitanya, Serena Chang, Chris Chapman, Aaron Chen, Yeen-Shi Chen, Carol Cheng, Simon Cheung, Raymond Chih, Hitesh Chikate, Jung-Yoon Choi, Sandesh Chonkar, Craig Chun, Jeffrey Cilley, Lisa Clarity, Abdul Rahman Coatwala, Seth Cobb, Brendan Condit, Michael Conelly, Chris Consani, J. Todd Constantine, Rosmary Conte, Shane Cooper, Michael Crane, Sheri Cruz, Tim T. Cunningham, Julie D Antoni, Scott Dace, Umesh Dalvi, Rajdeep Dandekar, Payal Dani, Jubin Dave, Nirmal David, Bryan Davies, Erik De Boer, Jose L. De Juan, Hector de la Torre, Paresh Dedhia, Dan DeLeeuw, Kent Demaine, Michelle Deniaud, Matt Derksen, Radha Desai, Pallavi Devabhaktuni, Jenny Dias, Matthew Doll, Ryan Donoghue, Jason Dowdeswell, John Dowell, Brian Dowrick, Miller Drake, Philip Duncan, Avedis Ekmekjian, Colin Elliott, Richard Enders, Jelena Erceg, Anders Ericson, Tony Etienne, Maggie Evans, Christopher Exell, Rich Fallat, Eric Farrar, Colbert Fennelly, Edwin Fong, Steve Fong, Jackie Fortin, Chad L. Fox, Elisabeth Franklin, Patricia Frazier, Janet Freedland, Mike Frevert, Jack Fulmer, Paul Furminger, Vinod Gaitonde, Jigesh Gajjar, Jay Gambell, Alex Garcia, Andy Garcia, Bertha Garcia, Scott Gastellu, Bill Georgiou, Daniel Gonzalez, Jimmy Gordon, Brent Greening, Mugdha Gupte, Travis Guthrie, Betsy Asher Hall, Keith Hamakawa, Paul Haman, Geoffrey Hancock, Benjamin Hardy, Gael Harlow, Jonathan Harman, Anthony Harris, Audie Harrison, John Lake Harvey, Harrison Hays, Robert Helms, Alan Hernandez, Paul Hettler, Hans Heymans, Todd Edward James Hill, Allen Holbrook, Phil Holland, Mark Hopper, Brian Howald, Shih Chiang Kenny Huang, Shih-hao Jason Huang, Jamie Huey, John Hughes, Kenton Hulme, Peter Hunt, Sean Hyunin Lee, Chris Ingersoll, Yukiko Ishiwata, Montu Jariwala, Peter Vaughn Jervis, Mabel John, Tad Johnston, Heather Jones-Pryor, Tex Kadonaga, Alla Kalachnikova, Terry Kalinich, Kamalakkannan, Gnana Kannan, Perry Kass, Sean Kennedy, Chansoo Kim, Tae Yong Kim, Vemulapalli Sasi Kiran, Karen Klein, Marta Knudsen, Kim Kotfis, Joe Ksander, Takashi Kubota, Bartek Kujbida, Mukesh Kumar, Aaron Kupferman, David Lauer, Dan Lazarow, Kamy Leach, Jaemin Lee, Cam Leeburg, Matthew Leishman, Frederick LeMaster, Philippe Leprince, Joe Letteri, Bradford Lewis, Colin Liggett, Wilmer Lin, Matt Linder, Steve Linn, Dave Lo, Blaine Lougheed, David Luong, Mary Lynn Machado, Richard Mahon, Kimberly Mann, Karl Maples, Tim Matney, Agata Matuszak, Frank Maurer, Dan Mayer, Ursula Mazurkiewicz, Jeff McLean, M. 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Bhagtani, Abhishek Bharadwaj, Laurie Blavin, Robert Bloom, Eric Bonilla, Scott Bonnenfant, Cris Borgnine, Randy Bosh, Nicholas Boughen, Ravinder Brar, Kristie Breslin, Nathan Brunskill, Harry Russell Brutsche, Marc Bryant, Jose Burgos, Daniela Calafatello, Paul Campion, Steve Casa, Jerry Castro, Brian Chacon, Robert Chapin, Arun P. Chidambaram, Das Chinmay, Vikas Chirate, Jung-Yoon Choi, Patrick Clancey, Webster Colcord, Daniel Aristoteles Collins, John Cornejo, Brian Covalt, Stéphane Cros, Joe C. D Amato, Jai Dadlani, Umesh Dalvi, Chris Dawson, Adam de Bosch Kemper, Stephen Deane, Peter Demarest, Ben Dishart, Tim Dobbert, David Joseph Dominic, Tim Drnec, Giovanni Dulay, Peter Fiala, Arin Finger, Karl Fornander, Ben Forster, Adam Francis, Warren Franklin, Maki Fukumoto, Nicole Galaz, Rahul Galwankar, Shannon Blake Gans, Jack Geckler, Divakar Ghodake, Julieta Gleiser, Daniel Gloates, Namita Gotephode, Monique Gougeon, Varun Hadkar, Brian Hanable, Greg Hansen, Micah Henrie, Tulio Hernandez, Pamela Hobbs, Alan Hodges, Timothy Hoffman, Nick Hsieh, Ian Hunter, Tony Hurd, Bob Hurrie, Neeraj Ingle, Vinita Iyer, Mabel John, Christopher Johnson, John Joyce, Michael Joyce, Apirak Kamjan, Prabhav Katdare, Jason Kaufman, Yogesh Kaushal, Geetanjali Kharbe, Brook Kievit, John Kilkenny, Sijo Kolenchery, Vipasha Koul, Martin Kumor, Alex Kyrou, Michelle Ladd, Jessica Lai, Mike Leben, Hae-Jeon Lee, Soyoun Lee, Louis Leung, Heather MacDonald, Carol Madrigal, Kevin Mains, Joe Mancewicz, Shilpesh Mane, Stuart T. Maschwitz, Paul Maurice, L. Patrick McCormack, Dennis McHugh, Kirk McInroy, Dan McNamara, Alexandra Menapace, Chirag Mistry, Mark Moore, Christopher Mossman, Patrick Paul Mullane, Ken Murano, Ram Mohan Nadam Reddy, John P. Nugent, Stephen Null, Samuel Nunez, Jim O Hagan, Miguel Ortega, Jinnie Pak, Scott Paquin, Puja Parikh, Naveen Paul, Vishal Pawar, Peter Pelisek, Diana Jane Perry, Darryl Pfiel, Jaikumar Pillay, Ann Podlozny, Tushar Prakashan, Audrey Price, Kevin Quaid, A.J. Raitano, Niral Rajani, Kedar Raut, Suryapal Rawat, Aaron Rhodes, Grover Richardson, Eric Robinson, Mike Roby, Sammy Rodriguez, Jonathan Rothbart, Daniel Rubin, Karl Rumpf, Saswat Sahoo, Eric Saindon, Mayur Samant, Neha Samant, Marcelo M. Santos, Arnab Sanyal, Chingkhei Sapam, Subhajit Sarkar, Joe Scarr, Andrew Schneider, Charles Schwartz, Misty Segura-Bowers, Kalai Selvan, Seshaprasad, Siddharth Shah, Chad Shattuck, Shyamchand, Murugan Siju, Mandeep Singh, Nick Sinnott, Danita Slaughter, Brad Smith, Jeff W. Smith, Marc Smith, Ellen Somers, Ben Steele, Scott Stewart, John K. Stirber, Ryan Swanno, Ken Swenson, Carsten Sørensen, Marla Tanigawa, Kevin Tengan, Arash Tirgari, Brian Tolle, Jerry Tung, Lisa Turner, Luke Vallee, Chris Van Dyck, Ruslan Vasylev, Rakesh Venugopalan, Rich Volp, Pragti Wadhwa, Adam Walls, Cameron Widen, Paul Wiens, Shannon Wiggins, Eric Withee, Tiffany Wu, Blade Zavier, Peter Zoppi

Stunts

Lloyd Adams, Trevor Addie, Charlie Attrill, Aaron Au, Loyd Bateman, Shawn Beaton, Rob Sluggo Boyce, John Branagan, Dustin Brooks, Richard Brooks, Simon Burnett, Yves Cameron, Clint Carleton, Raymond Chan, Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle, Alex Chiang, Kimberly Chiang, Mike Ching, Dean Choe, Blaise Corrigan, Chad Cosgrave, Colin Decker, Mike Desabrais, Joe Dodds, Mike Dopud, Troy Dorchester, Tom Eirikson, Greg Fitzpatrick, Corry Glass, Jason Glass, Reg Glass, Tom Glass, Christopher Gordon, Alex Green, Brian Ho, Dave Hospes, Kirk Jaques, Trevor Jones, Jon Kralt, Cody Laudan, William Lawrence, Mitchell A. Lee Yuen, Randy Lee, Roger Lewis, J.J. Makaro, Kit Mallet, Mike Mitchell, Jovan Nenadic, Darryl Quon, Dan Rizzuto, Jeffrey C. Robinson, Paul Rutledge, Chad Sayn, Greg Schlosser, John Scott, Todd Scott, Darren Shahlavi, Hugo Steele, Heath Stevenson, Sonny Surowiec, Leo Byusa Teta, Clay Virtue, Mike Vézina, Gerald Wong, Brent Woolsey, Eli Zagoudakis, Ken Zilka, Mark Chin, Darryl Quon, Hugo Steele

Camera and Electrical Department

Tom Ainsworth, Matt Almas, Matt Balzarini, Troy Bassett, Greg Beaton, Bruce Beaulac, Larry Blanford, Jeff Bonny, Jonathan Bosse, Julian Bosse, Keith Brooks, Keith Bunting, Terry Calhoun, Phillip V. Caruso, Scott Clark, Scott Cozens, David Crone, Drew David, Rick Dean, Glen A. Dickson, Stan Dim, Thomas Dolan, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Miguel Gelinas, Amie Gibbins, Michael Green, Doane Gregory, Rick Guenther, Tyler Guenther, John Harkin, Tim Heller, Gavin Hill, Junichi Hosoi, Stephen Jackson, Jason Jaeger, Dennis Jones, Timothy James Kane, Shane Kjar, Burton Kuchera, Phillipe Lacroix, David Lee, Michael P.R. Lemmers, Robert Little, John R. MacDonald, Gus Magalios, John Marilley-Bodner, Taylor Matheson, Neil McBride, Kevin McCloy, Kevin McKenna, Todd Munn, Richard Nelless, Neil Novich, Billy Patsos, George Patsos, Rocco Proscia, Collin Quinlan, Ryan Quinlan, Chuck Reid, Sam Rosedietcher, Dave Roughley, Kyle Rudolph, Ralph Rutherford, James Salberg, Vance Vegas Salvalaggio, Scott Schroeder, Richard Sinclair, Ian Smith, Rick Stribling, Jay Stroburg, Andy Tollasepp, Dana Turken, Vince Uytdehaag, Jason Velez, Dale Vrba, James F. Walsh, Kevin Walsh, Ron Waters, Lance White, Tony Whiteside, Ernest Yurich, Mike Yurich, Justin Bergler, Jeffery Bjorgum, Cary Cooper, Matthew Devitt, Eric Dvorsky, Nazim Edeer, David Geddes, Lee Gibeau, Alexander Glua, Michael N. Green, Jeff Grimshire, Ian Guns, Russell Hawkes, Todd Helsley, Gilbert Jamault, Nina Jones, Norbert Kaluza, Erik Kasson, Tom Kolafa, Josh Lovig, Stephen Maier, Paul C. McKenna, David McKnight, Kelly Moore, Craig Nix, Justin Panzanaro, Keith Robinson, Peter Ronan, Miles Schick, Andrew Thom, Jason Tidsbury, Lee Washburn

Animation Department

Ruth Daly, Jackie Tarascio, Jonathan Block, Terry Kalinich, Graham Silva

Casting Department

Heike Brandstatter, Deanna Brigidi, James Forsyth, Lee Genick, Carrie Hilton, Valerie Lindquist, Coreen Mayrs, Zoe E. Rotter, Trica Thompson, Barbara Harris, Miriam Hoffman, James McKenzie Moore

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Ellen Anderson, Blanche-Danielle Boileau, Andre Brouwer, Rose Marie Cappelluti, Phuong Chau, Christine Coutts, Courtney Daniel, Kevin P. Faherty, Courtney Aura Freeman, Christine Grenier, Lise Hache, Robert Mata, Winsome G. McKoy, Susan O Hara, Karen Patch, Caroline Poirier, Autumn Saville, Jean David Serafino, Petra Wright, Carolyn Bentley, Summer Dietz, Karen Durrant, Summer Eves, Denise Gingrich, Silke Guglielmo, April Hunter-Krueger, Jessica Kelley, Jessica Lythgoe-Green, David Paulin, Nicola Ryall, Janice Swayze

Editorial Department

Terra Bliss, Gary Burritt, Michael Eaves, Melody Gehrman, Rand Geiger, Chris Jensen, Devon Miller, Herbert Dwight Raymond IV, Chris Regan, Tyler Ruocco, Korstiaan Vandiver, Dean Zimmerman, Todd Baillere, Marisa Clayton, Joe Finley, Robert E. Phillips, Robb Porter, Mykel Thuncher, Amy M. Zech

Location Management

Brian K. Barnes, Nick Carr, Matthew Kania, Michael Kriaris, Neil Robertson, Kris Schackman, Bill Burns, Payton Dunham, Christopher McDonell, Shieed Pittman, Dixie Plaxton, Andrew Saxe, Chris Thoma

Music Department

Eun-Mee Ahn, Michael Atwell, Leanne Becknell, David Bifano, Tom Boyd, Tom Brown, Reid Bruton, Darius Campo, Wade Culbreath, Sandy DeCrescent, Andrew Duckles, Bruce Dukov, Karim Elmahmoudi, Steve Erdody, Matt Franko, Jenny Graham, Tamara Hatwan, Amy Hershberger, Jim Hoffman, Kenneth Karman, Brian Kilgore, Katie Kirkpatrick, Armen Ksajikian, Tim Lauber, Dane Little, Peter Mandell, Darrin McCann, Malcolm McNab, Victoria Miskolczy, Rebecca Morellato, Daniel Nielsen, Mike Nowak, John Ottman, Victor Pesavento, Bryan Pezzone, Radu Pieptea, Conrad Pope, Joshua Ranz, Leslie Reed, John Richards, Michele Richards, Cassandra Richburg, Steven Roberts, Peter Rotter, Michael Rubino, Marni Sanders, Dennis S. Sands, Naomi Sato, Alan Silvestri, Jeanne E. Skrocki, David Slonaker, Sally Stevens, Bill Talbott, James Thatcher, John Ashton Thomas, Eric Tomlinson, Helen Werling, Terry Wilson, Joe Zimmerman, Bryan D. Arata, Thomas Cavanaugh, Danielle Diego, Ellen Ginsburg, Mark Graham, William Ross, Steven L. Smith, Jacqueline Tager

Script and Continuity Department

Diane Durant, Lorelei Kuchera, Jen Oberem

Transportation Department

Stephen Carr, Kerry Clark, Peter Clores, David Conelli, Steven R. Hammond, Andrew O Bray, Wayne Power, Christina Schaich, Rob Vreugde, Lawrence Albright, Dave Miller, Michael Sean Ryan, Joe Sanchez, Bruce Scott

Additional Crew

Michael Alexander, Daniella Araya, John Arnett, Kimberly Bailey, Catherine Battistone, Maggy Belzile, Patrick Bevilacqua, Gil Birmingham, Jason Booth, Josée Brodeur, Robby D. Bruce, Adam Bryant, Toni Bullock, Doug Burch, Alex Castillo, Cathy Cavadini, Christian Charlton, Rayan Charlton, Paul Chen, Justin Cherry, Allison Clarke, Alex Cong, Peter Cummings, Kennedy Davey, Gloria Davies, Danika Dinsmore, Nell Drake, David Dreishpoon, Steve Eckelman, Bellamy Forrest, Pedro U. Garcia, Jessica A. Gihon, Sean Gowrie, Stephanie Fitch Groff, Carl Gruell, Thomas L. Gunderson, Edith Hagigi, Helen Harlan, Barbara Harris, Shannon Harron, Aaron Hendry, Ellen Houlihan, Alicia Ivery, Erica Jones, Janice Jori, Gordon Juli, Cohl Kenneth Klop, Daamen J. Krall, Tommy Lamey, Peter Lapres, Melonie Lloyd-Jones, Cristina Lois, Raymundo Magana, Liz Mahoney, Karen March, Zahn McClarnon, Nerissa McCormack, Jane M. McCurley, Fawn McDonald, Dwane McIsaac, Roberto Medina, Tara Mews, Robert Milicevic, Arlin Miller, Khanya Mkhize, Michaela Jill Murphy, Vivianne Nacif, Abdoulaye NGom, Benjamin A. Onyango, Maggie Palomo, Jamie Payton, Martin Poz Perez, Francesco Perlangeli, Michael Ralph, Eric Scott Rau, Noreen Reardon, Miraida Rios, Ilka Rivard, Bob Roath, Phil Scalisi, Beth M. Schniebolk, Gwen Schroeder, Richard Scobie, John Scott, Craig Ricci Shaynak, Gubbi Sigurdsson, Troy Sitter, Michelle Sladinski, Cherie Smid, Jeremy Smith, Rebecca Erwin Spencer, Amy Spiegel, Tom Steel, Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Mark Sussman, Joel Swetow, Jacey Taub, Regina Taufen, Randy Thomas, Angelique Villegas, Kyle Villegas, Andy Wheeler, Matthew H. Wiesner, Roger Williams, Peden Young, Travis Quentin Young, Ruth Zalduondo, Christopher Aber, Bob Bedard, Brian Bero, Michael Bishop, Creel Brown, Jason C. Brown, Max A. Butler, Jennifer Bydwell, Terry Calhoun, Shawn Campbell, Dono Cunningham, Ian Duffy, Satish Goda, Zane Grewer, Thomas L. Gunderson, Kerry Hansen, Jason Hariton, Michael Hendrickson, Phil Holland, Jill Hoppy, Christina Hwang, Kimball Jansma, Terry Kalinich, Tilu Khalayi, Don LaFontaine, Chris Lane, Grant Lutz, Grace MacLeod, Faya Madrid, Ryan Mains, Jane Mason, Kristi McConnell, M. Michelle Nishikawa, Kathleen O Reilly, Laurent Piche, Holly Pinder, Matthew Reedy, Kristen Crabtree Roath, Jennifer Roberts, Paul M. Rodriguez, Stephen Sprague, Khene Tan, Ned Vukovic, Barrie Wells, David Wittlin, Tamara Young

Genres

Adventure, Comedy, Family

Companies

Twentieth Century Fox, Ingenious Film Partners, 1492 Pictures

Countries

USA, UK

Languages

English, Italian, Hebrew

ContentRating

PG

ImDbRating

6.4

ImDb Rating Votes

345624

Metacritic Rating

48

Short Description

Night at the Museum is a 2006 fantasy comedy film directed by Shawn Levy and written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. It is based on the 1993 children s book of the same name by Croatian illustrator Milan Trenc. The film had an ensemble cast of Ben Stiller in the lead role, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, and Robin Williams. It tells the story of a divorced father who applies for a job as a night watchman at New York City s American Museum of Natural History and subsequently discovers that the exhibits, animated by a magical Egyptian artifact, come to life at night. 20th Century Fox released the film on December 22, 2006, and it grossed $574.5 million worldwide, becoming the 5th highest-grossing film of 2006, but received mixed reviews from critics.

Two sequels were released: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian in 2009, and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb in 2014. An animated sequel, Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again, is also scheduled to be released in 2022 for the streaming service Disney+.

Box Office Budget

$110,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$30,433,781

Box Office Gross USA

$250,863,268

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$574,481,229

Keywords

Theodore roosevelt character,jedediah smith character,octavius caesar character,deception,american museum of natural history