‘Dog Man’ Barking Up Second Best January Debut For Animated Pic With $35M+, ‘Companion’ $8M-$10M – Saturday AM Box Office Update
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deadline.comSATURDAY AM: Dog Man is providing some life to the box office this weekend with what’s now looking like a $35.3M opening.
That’s the second biggest opening for a January animated title of all-time after DreamWorks Animation’s 2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 ($41.8M) and it’s the third consecutive No.
1 debut for DWA after Kung Fu Panda 4 and The Wild Robot, and the 26th DWA title to open at No. 1 stateside for the studio that Steven Spielberg-Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen originally founded.
According to PostTrak, 45% bought tickets to Dog Man because it looked fun and entertaining, while close to a third of the audience went because it’s part of a franchise they love, that being the Dav Pikley Scholastic graphic novels.
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