Dog Man Already Recoups Budget With Opening Weekend Box Office, Nearly Setting New Record

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The DreamWorks Animation/Universal Captain Underpants spinoff film, Dog Man, ran away with the top box office spot for the weekend of Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. The Peter Hastings-directed film starring the voices of Pete Davidson, Poppy Liu, Lil Rel Howery, Isla Fisher, and Billy Boyd took in $35 million in the U.S. and with its additional international box office take, surpassed a $40 million global opening.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Dog Man, based on the original books by Dav Pilkey, has already made back its $40 million production budget. The film’s logline reads: “When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, a harebrained life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born. Dog Man is sworn to protect and serve – and fetch, sit and roll over.”

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Dog Man also nearly broke a record for the month of January. The film came away with the second-biggest January debut ever for an animated movie, just behind DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), which earned $41.28 (not adjusted for inflation) on its opening weekend.

The story of the man and dog who share the same body is the first movie geared toward kids to open since Mufasa: The Lion King during the Christmas holiday weekend and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Moana 2, which opened over Thanksgiving. All three of those movies are still in the box office top 10, with Mufasa coming in third place over the most recent weekend, taking in an additional $6.1 million. Sonic 3 landed in the sixth spot with $3.2 million and Moana 2 in seventh place with $2.8 million.

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Dog Man Has Been Well-Received

Dog Man’s impressive debut at the box office isn’t surprising as the film has an A CinemaScore, a Rotten Tomatoes critic score of 76% and an audience score of 86%. In CBR’s review of the film, the animation was praised. “The animation, more than anything, is a worthwhile reason to see Dog Man. Ever since Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse broke down the rules of 3D animated storytelling, there have been more attempts by DreamWorks and other animation studios to try out experimental styles that impose their own unique identity into the medium. Dog Man is no exception,” states the CBR review.

CBR also called the plot of Dog Man “at once heartfelt and scattershot, spreading its characters out too much but bringing their stories together in a way that highlights its themes of second chances and redemption.”

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Last week’s box office winner, the Mark Wahlberg-led Mel Gibson-directed Flight Risk, fell to fifth place with $5.6 million. Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher’s Companion, a sci-fi horror film from Warner Bros., debuted in second place with $9.5 million.

Dog Man is currently in theaters.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter