Universal/DreamWorks Animations Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a real kitty in the booty as it will cross $300 million worldwide including today’s gross.
The highly acclaimed sequel and Shrek Spin off is over $297.8 million including world news on Sunday. Directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, the adventure surpassed that Croods: The New Age and Encanto to become the third biggest studio animated title of the pandemic era, both overseas and worldwide.
cat 2 currently sits behind two other Universal animated films (Minions: The Rise of Gru and sing 2) during the pandemic years. In close hindsight, 2022 is now the first year since 2008 that every DreamWorks animated feature release has outsold every Pixar and Disney Animation release in the same year.
The Antonio Banderas/Salma Hayek sequel went overseas early and took its time to gain serious fame, with lots of word of mouth and soft drops; and also serves as counterprogramming Avatar: the way of water. Meanwhile, the main markets in the UK and Japan are yet to open.
Cat score particularly well in Latin America, where it passed number 1 avatar 2 Last weekend in Mexico. Brazil are also cat people with $9.7 million so far. While avatar have higher ticket prices, Cat had more shots in that last frame.
Universal now has the top 3 studio animated films since the pandemic began and included The Bad Boys (which had a great run in China) and The Crowd 2a total of five of the six best studio animations worldwide and among the top four internationally.
At the international checkout cat 2 is the third biggest Hollywood animation of the pandemic and the biggest DWA release of the pandemic.
Author pmc-u-font-size-14″>Writer: Nancy Tartaglione
Source: Deadline
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