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Set 30 years after the events of the first The Boss Baby film, Tim Templeton is now fully grown and lives with his wife Carol and their two daughters, Tabitha and Tina. Tim’s younger brother Ted is now a successful CEO and is never around, instead sending lavish gifts to Tim and his family.
Tabitha is exhibiting more grown-up behavior, and one night while a discouraged Tim wonders about the person his daughter is becoming, he hears something coming from infant daughter Tina’s room. When he goes to investigate, he discovers that Tina is a Boss Baby, just as Ted once was, and that she has been assigned to get Ted there for a special mission. Tim refuses to call, saying that he will never come, and encourages Tina to go back to sleep. However, Tina leaves a false voicemail for Ted, inviting him to come.
The Boss Baby: Family Business (known in other territories as The Boss Baby 2) is a 2021 American computer-animated comedy film loosely based on the 2010 picture book The Boss Baby and its 2016 sequel The Bossier Baby by Marla Frazee, produced by DreamWorks Animation, and distributed by Universal Pictures.
The second installment in The Boss Baby franchise and the sequel to the 2017 film, the film is directed by Tom McGrath, from a screenplay by Michael McCullers with a story by McGrath and McCullers, and stars the voices of Alec Baldwin, James Marsden, Amy Sedaris, Ariana Greenblatt, Jeff Goldblum, Eva Longoria, Jimmy Kimmel, and Lisa Kudrow. The plot follows the now-adult Templeton brothers (Baldwin and Marsden) who are brought back together after the new Boss Baby (Sedaris) requests their help to stop a professor (Goldblum) from erasing childhoods worldwide.
The film was theatrically released in the United States on July 2, 2021 in traditional and select RealD 3D and Dolby Cinema locations, by Universal Pictures; it also streamed on paid tiers of Peacock for 60 days. The film has grossed $100 million worldwide, with the Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus calling it “a painless diversion for the kids”.The Boss Baby: Family Business (known in other territories as The Boss Baby 2) is a 2021 American computer-animated comedy film loosely based on the 2010 picture book The Boss Baby and its 2016 sequel The Bossier Baby by Marla Frazee, produced by DreamWorks Animation, and distributed by Universal Pictures.
The second installment in The Boss Baby franchise and the sequel to the 2017 film, the film is directed by Tom McGrath, from a screenplay by Michael McCullers with a story by McGrath and McCullers, and stars the voices of Alec Baldwin, James Marsden, Amy Sedaris, Ariana Greenblatt, Jeff Goldblum, Eva Longoria, Jimmy Kimmel, and Lisa Kudrow. The plot follows the now-adult Templeton brothers (Baldwin and Marsden) who are brought back together after the new Boss Baby (Sedaris) requests their help to stop a professor (Goldblum) from erasing childhoods worldwide.
The film was theatrically released in the United States on July 2, 2021 in traditional and select RealD 3D and Dolby Cinema locations, by Universal Pictures; it also streamed on paid tiers of Peacock for 60 days. The film has grossed $100 million worldwide, with the Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus calling it “a painless diversion for the kids”.
In the sequel to DreamWorks Animation’s Oscar®-nominated blockbuster comedy, the Templeton brothers—Tim and his Boss Baby little bro Ted (Alec Baldwin)—have become adults and drifted away from each other. Tim is now a married stay-at-home dad. Ted is a hedge fund CEO. But a new boss baby with a cutting-edge approach and a can-do attitude is about to bring them together again … and inspire a new family business.
Building on the success of the first film, which earned more than $500 million worldwide, The Boss Baby: Family Business is directed by returning filmmaker Tom McGrath and is produced by Jeff Hermann.
The Boss Baby: Family Business was theatrically released in the United States on July 2, 2021, in regular showings and in select RealD 3D and Dolby Cinema by Universal Pictures; it also streamed on paid tiers of Peacock for 60 days. It was originally scheduled for release on March 26, 2021, but was delayed to September 17, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, before moving to July 2, 2021.
According to Samba TV, 783,000 households streamed the film on Peacock over its opening weekend. The Boss Baby: Family Business was theatrically released in the United States on July 2, 2021, in regular showings and in select RealD 3D and Dolby Cinema by Universal Pictures; it also streamed on paid tiers of Peacock for 60 days. It was originally scheduled for release on March 26, 2021, but was delayed to September 17, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, before moving to July 2, 2021.
As of September 1, 2021, The Boss Baby: Family Business had grossed $56.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $43.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $100.5 million.
In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside The Forever Purge, and was projected to gross around $15 million from 3,640 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $7.7 million on its first day, including $1.31 million from Thursday night previews, slightly down from the $1.5 million made by the first installment.
It went on to debut to $17.3 million, finishing second at the box office behind Universal’s own F9. With Universal’s F9, Family Business, and The Forever Purge finishing in the top three spots, it marked the first time a single studio accomplished the feat since February 2005. The film fell 44.5% in its sophomore weekend to $8.9 million, finishing third, then made $4.7 million in its third weekend, finishing in fourth.
The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
Directed by: Tom McGrath
Starring: Alec Baldwin, James Marsden, Amy Sedaris, Ariana Greenblatt, Jeff Goldblum, Eva Longoria, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, Ashlyn Lundahl, Molly K. Gray, April Lawrence
Screenplay by: Michael McCullers
Production Design by: Raymond Zibach
Film Editing by: Mary Blee, Mark A. Hester:
Art Direction by: Christopher Brock, Andy Schuhler
Music by: Hans Zimmer, Steve Mazzaro
MPAA Rating: PG for rude humor, mild language and some action.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: July 2, 2021
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