"Hoodwinked" Hits $100 Million
Big news! After playing around the globe, the girl in the hood has finally hit the $100 Million mark. Not bad for an $8 Million indie film. I gotta say, it feels GOOD. Thanks to everyone on the crew who worked on this labor of love… and sweat… and tears. You know who you are.
Here’s a nice quote from Harvey Weinstein in this week’s Wall Street Journal: “The first six months in the new company, I got fascinated with animation and built an infrastructure for that. I didn’t know that right out the box we’d have such a monster hit in “Hoodwinked.” [The film grossed $101 million world-wide.] And now we’re in production with ‘Hoodwinked II’.”
And for a little icing on the cake, we’re #1 in Brazil this month. Boom.
November 1st, 2006 at 7:43 am
AWESOME!!!! Totally sweet!!
November 1st, 2006 at 9:22 am
Wow $92 Million all for you. Can I borrow ten bucks?
November 1st, 2006 at 10:35 am
What? I gotta call my accountant! He must have made off with all of that!!! But you can still borrow ten bucks.
November 1st, 2006 at 10:58 am
very nice! congrats! I still get so excited to go around saying ‘hey, i know those guys!’
November 1st, 2006 at 11:17 am
Congratulations, Cory! That’s fantastic!
November 1st, 2006 at 11:31 am
Excellent, Cory. Great to hear. I’ll add that info to the piece I’m finishing up. I’m so far behind on my site! Who made the rule about paying gigs coming first, anyway…?
November 1st, 2006 at 12:06 pm
And rightfully deserved! Congratulations!
Um…Forget the “borrow,” can I have ten bucks??? 😀
November 1st, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Rock on, Cory!
-Sean
November 1st, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Way cool. Congrats on the (well-deserved) global $$/love.
November 2nd, 2006 at 7:30 am
I’ll take $25 since you’re handing out…
November 2nd, 2006 at 10:20 pm
Congratulations Cory. I personally loved Hoodwinked, especially the crazy little squirrel. I look forward to many more quality films from you and your company.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Congratulations! I loved the movie too. I look forward to seeing the second one, and more great original music.
November 6th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Congrats Cory and gang! I’m so happy for you all!
BTW, my sons totally think that the squirrel in Over the Hedge was inspired by YOURS. 🙂
November 12th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Gayla,
Tell your boys I have my suspicions… There are a bunch of singing frogs in the upcoming Disney flick “Meet the Robinsons,” and they look EXACTLY like Nicky Flippers. What are you gonna do?
I’ve had friends who read for roles in “Over the Hedge” years earlier and they said Hammy’s big scene of drinking a sports drink and going berzerk was always in there. Sometimes painful similarities just happen.
March 6th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Congrats. That’s quite an accomplishment. I noticed that you mentioned an $8M figure. Wikipedia mentions a figure between $15 and $20M. The $15M number seems to be the most popular. Was it really $8M?