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.

Watch out, “Wolf Man” and “Better Man,” because the box office is about to be taken over by “Dog Man.” Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s new movie has made $1.36 million at the box office in Thursday previews.