The Hollywood Reporter forecasts weekend box office:
DreamWorks Animation's 3D animated feature Megamind should make mega-bucks at the box office starting Friday. ... Surging prerelease interest puts the comedy on track to open with more than $50 million in domestic box office ... considerably north of the $43.7 million bow by the Jeffrey Katzenberg-led company's How to Train Your Dragon in March ...
If the Reporter is anywhere near accurate, this will mean DreamWorks Animation will be batting three for three in 2010. That would be a first for a cartoon studio: three feature releases in a single year, three hits.
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Just looked at the list of movies playing, and the ones opening this weekend. Megamind has no competition.
So is this the first time a single animation studio has released 3 movies in one year, or the first 3 movies have each been hits in one year?
The only year I can think of that (arguably) 3 animated movies were released was 2000 with Fantasia 2000, Dinosaur, and Emperor's New Groove. But Fantasia 2000 premiered in '99 before a wide release in 2000.
Well, DWA has hired everyone and their sister over the last couple years, so it makes sense their output would increase.
Good for them! I just hope it continues and audiences dont get tired of animated films. There is such a thing as over-saturating the market, and Id hate to see a massive DWA layoff...
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