‘Dog Man’ To Bark Louder Than ‘Companion’ At Weekend Box Office With $20M+ – Preview
deadline.comFor the first time in 2025, the box office is going to have some sort of pulse as Universal’s DreamWorks Animation title Dog Man is set to send families back into theaters after 2024’s holiday Mufasa-Wicked juggernaut with an opening in excess of $20 million-plus.
Booked at 3,800 theaters, Dog Man is based on the Dav Pilkey Scholastic graphic novels that have sold more than 60 million copies and have been translated into 47 languages.
He’s also the author behind the Captain Underpants books; that brand was adapted into a 2017 20th Century Fox movie that opened to $23.8M and legged out to $73.9M stateside.
In Dog Man, a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, however, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born.
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