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By Movieguide® Staff
HOPPERS ruled the box office this weekend, bringing in $46 million in domestic ticket sales.
“This is a fantastic original film from the incredible team at Pixar, and it’s wonderful to see audiences coming out with their friends and families to enjoy it together,” Alan Bergman, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, said in a statement.
For comparison, the next-highest-earning movie this weekend was SCREAM 7, with just $17.3 million. R-rated THE BRIDE took third place with $7.3 million.
HOPPERS tells the story of a teenage environmentalist who gets a firsthand look at the animals she wants to save when she gets swapped into the body of a beaver. In addition to its domestic ticket sales, the movie took in $42 million internationally, giving it an $88 million global launch.
The movie is receiving top marks from both critics and audiences. Movieguide®’s review reads, “Beautifully animated, HOPPERS tells a delightful, wacky, hilarious story with fun twists and turns,” praising it for its promotion of “repentance from evil.”
“The message of the whole movie is that we can actually get there together if we join forces instead of fighting each other,” star Piper Curda told The Latin Times.
The actress also spoke about connecting with her character, Mabel, sharing, “I struggled for a long time with having so many feelings and not knowing where to put them. Kids are emotionally complex too. They have so many feelings and they don’t know what to do with them. I hope they feel seen when they watch Mabel.”
Producer Nicole Grindle spoke to Animation Scoop about HOPPERS’ theme of community, sharing, “We stumbled upon beavers, who are the best community builders. It wasn’t that we picked beavers because they were the story we were telling; they became the story we were telling because of who they are.”
“Figuring out that Mabel was someone who loved animals but was alone — this was something we discovered along the way that was gonna be her trajectory. How does Mabel connect with others? That’s the thing she needs to learn along the way,” she continued. “You know, you can’t just change the world all by yourself. You can’t fix these things without community. But it was something we discovered. It wasn’t something that we set out to do. The story told us, as we were making it, what it wanted.”
HOPPERS’ box office success once again proves that moviegoers want to see family-friendly content at the theater.
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