<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $9 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $42.3 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Bad News Bears is a 1976 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie . It stars Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal . The film was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978, a short - lived 1979--80 CBS television series, and a 2005 remake . </P> <P> The original screenplay was written by Bill Lancaster . Notable was the score by Jerry Fielding, which is an adaptation of the principal themes of Bizet's opera Carmen . </P>

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