Box-Office: Dog Man finally wakes up the rooms, the Horror film Companion starts well

It was not until February that the year 2025 of the American box office showed a sign of life, and films that bring theaters to theaters. We can say in particular thank you to the animated film Dog Manwhich largely leads to the ranking.

DreamWorks continues the beautiful surprises

With $ 36 million generated for its first operating weekend, Dog Man Surfs on his beautiful critical welcome and once again proves the ability of family films to attract the public in mass.

Dog Man thus sign the second best launch of an animated feature film in January, after Kung Fu Panda 3 In 2016 (41.8 million), and offers studio DreamWorks animation its third crown in less than a year after The wild robot And Kung Fu Panda 4.

If we are far from titanic launches of Disney/Pixar as Vice-versa 2 (154.2 million) and Vaiana 2 (139.7 million), the success of Dog Man is to be put in perspective with its small budget of $ 40 million, excluding marketing and distribution costs (called “P&A”, for “Prints and Advertising”). A reasoned economic model which does not sacrifice (too much) to quality, proving that there are alternatives to budgets several hundred million.

The other novelty of the week was Companion. The horror and anticipation film by New Line Cinema (Warner Bros. a subsidiary) started at $ 9.5 million in the projections of analysts, which awaited it around 8 to 10 million.

Carried by a strong marketing on social networks targeted on young people The film managed to convince, since 68% of the audience in theaters is between 18 and 34 years old. Companion should not make history, but good word of mouth should allow it to enter its costs and in particular absorb its mini budget estimated at less than ten million dollars.

In the rest of the box office, High -risk flight Fall from first to fifth place in the ranking with $ 5.6 million generated for its second weekend (-51.7%). Mel Gibson's film with Mark Wahlberg unfortunately barely exceeds 20 million in the United States, too little to be considered a success by his Lionsgate Films studio.

US box office from January 31 to February 2, 2025 (estimates)