It wasn’t Wolf Man, and it actually wasn’t Higher Man, however Canine Man has dominated the January field workplace. Based mostly on the kids’s graphic novel of the identical identify by Dav Pilkey, Canine Man is a spin-off and story throughout the story of Captain Underpants, which bought a DreamWorks Animated film again in 2017. In a premise that seems like children’ first physique horror, Canine Man sees a canine’s face sewn onto a person’s physique to turn out to be a supercop whereas going up towards many several types of villains.
Based on Deadline, Canine Man introduced a formidable $35.3 million in its opening weekend based mostly on the estimates (closing numbers can be recorded Monday morning). This simply provides Canine Man the most important opening weekend of 2025 thus far, beating out the weekend of Jan. 5, 2025, the place Mufasa: The Lion King grossed $23 million in its third weekend of launch. Canine Man is the second highest-grossing opening for an animated film behind Kung Fu Panda 3‘s $41.8 million in 2016. This additionally marks DreamWorks Animations’ third consecutive film to open at no 1 on the field workplace, following Kung Fu Panda 4 and The Wild Robotic in 2024.
By way of success, Canine Man‘ beat out the opening weekend of 2017’s Captain Underpants: The First Epic Film, which generated $23 million in its opening weekend. Captain Underpants: The First Film did have extra competitors going towards it, because it opened the identical weekend as Surprise Lady and was in a summer time film season that included different household movies like Automobiles 3 and Despicable Me 3. Canine Man actually has the good thing about being the primary new household film after Moana 2, Mufasa: The Lion King, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 dominated the household market for a lot of the holidays.
‘Canine Man’ Takes a Chew Out of the Field Workplace
Canine Man began in 2016, and thus far, 13 graphic novels have been launched, with the subsequent one coming within the fall of 2025. Being a comparatively new property means its goal demographic that first began studying the books remains to be throughout the age vary to need to go see the film whereas additionally attracting youthful followers who’ve possible been launched to the property via college ebook gala’s. Investing in Canine Man has paid off because it greater than doubled the opening weekends of recent releases like Den of Thieves: Pantera ($15 million) whereas tripling the opening weekend of titles like Considered one of Them Days ($11.8 million), Flight Danger ($11.5 million), and Wolf Man ($10 million).
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Canine Man now has a number of runway on the field workplace, as it’s the solely animated household movie till The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Film on Feb. 28, 2025, and that has a smaller distribution firm, Ketchup Leisure, behind it. In fact, the February 14 launch of Captain America: Courageous New World will dominate the field workplace, however relating to titles particularly aimed toward children, the subsequent massive launch can be Snow White on Mar. 21, 2025, eight weeks after Canine Man opened in theaters. Household movies, notably when there isn’t a important competitors, have a tendency to carry properly on the field workplace as mother and father will possible at all times need one thing to take their children to, and it appears like Canine Man may very well be in theaters for fairly a while. With a price range of solely $40 million, it feels protected to say that the information of a Canine Man sequel needs to be introduced any day now.
Canine Man
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- Launch Date
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January 31, 2025
- Director
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Peter Hastings