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Dog Man has won the weekend with a record haul, but Companion is also doing very well. Dog Man, which is a spinoff of the 2017 movie Captain Underpants based on the Dav Pilkey graphic novel series of the same name, is the 50th feature film released by DreamWorks Animation. The Companion release kicked off on the same day, with the R-rated horror film starring Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, and Harvey Guillén targeting a very different audience.
Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, Dog Man is projected to take in a 3-day debut gross of $35 million at the domestic box office, landing it at No. 1 on the chart for the weekend. This will give it the second-best opening weekend for a January animated release behind 2016’s Kung Fu Panda 3 ($41.8 million), which is also a DreamWorks title. It is the company’s third No. 1 debut in a row after Kung Fu Panda 4 and The Wild Robot and their 26th overall.
While Companion is tracking much further behind with a 3-day total in a range between $8 and $10 million, this is a solid kickoff for the horror movie, which was produced by Barbarian writer-director Zach Cregger. It only cost $10 million to make, so by the end of the weekend it may have already earned back its budget.
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Source: Deadline
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