Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Dog Man is fetching a great opening of $33M per afternoon figures right now with Friday expected to come in at $10M at 3,885 locations, including previews. That’s higher than the comps for this younger-skewing property (65% of the kids audience was under nine years old last night)– Captain Underpants at

For the first time in 2025, the box office is going to have some sort of pulse as Universal’s DreamWorks Animation title Dog Man is set to send families back into theaters after 2024’s holiday Mufasa-Wicked juggernaut with an opening in excess of $20 million-plus.

DOG MAN, a movie from the world of CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS, is expected to make $25-$30 million over the weekend. Booked at 3,800 theaters, some estimators even venture it could get as much as $40 million. CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE opened to $23.8 million and ended with $125 million globally, per Variety.