Where to watch Night at the Museum (2006)

Trivia & production notes

• Stephen Sommers was originally hired to direct but left the project due to creative differences and his commitment to a When Worlds Collide remake, leading Shawn Levy to take over.
• The museum interior was built on a soundstage in Burnaby, British Columbia and based on the American Museum of Natural History, though exterior shots of the real building were used in the film.
• Trainers spent several weeks teaching Crystal, the capuchin monkey playing Dexter, to slap and bite Ben Stiller on command.
• Shawn Levy credited Ben Stiller with assembling the ensemble cast, noting that actors wanted to work with him, which helped attract the film's talent.
• Alan Silvestri replaced John Ottman as the film's composer, and Silvestri's score was later used for the teaser trailer of Horton Hears a Who.
• The American Museum of Natural History reported a 20 percent increase in visitors during the holiday season following the film's release, with 50,000 more visitors between late December 2006 and early January 2007 compared to the previous year.
• Night at the Museum earned $574.5 million worldwide and became the highest-grossing film of the trilogy.
• The film's second weekend saw it expand into 83 additional theaters and earn approximately $36.7 million, surpassing its opening weekend gross of $30.8 million.
• The film was released in IMAX format at museums and science centers, including the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.
• DVD sales of the film totaled approximately $153.6 million across 9.2 million copies sold as of December 2009.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Night at the Museum, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Rewritten for StreamShack; errors are ours — tell us about them.