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Based on | An original story by
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Produced by | Michelle Murdocca |
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Edited by | Pamela Ziegenhagen-Shefland |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing[1] |
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Running time | 86 minutes[3] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $85 million[4] |
Box office | $200.8 million[4] |
Open Season is a 2006 American animated adventure comedy film[5] directed by Jill Culton and Roger Allers from a screenplay by Nat Mauldin, Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman. The film stars the voices of Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Gary Sinise, and Debra Messing. Its plot follows Boog, a domesticated grizzly bear, who is let go into the woods, and teams up with a one-antlered mule deer named Elliot to return to his old home before open season starts.
Open Season was released in theaters in the United States on September 29, 2006. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office success, earning $201 million against an $85 million budget. The first in the Open Season film series, it was followed by Open Season 2 (2008), Open Season 3 (2010), and Open Season: Scared Silly (2015). A television series, Open Season: Call of Nature, was released in 2023.[6], and a video game based on the film was released on multiple platforms.
Producing animated features since 2006's "Open Season," Sony Pictures Animation has still to fire up a "Despicable Me" size franchise which can, as Belson out, provide a transformational moment, defining a studio's style.