Concerning Brother Bear‘s performance at the box offce, Box Office Guru says, “Last year around this time, Disney released Treasure Planet, another 2D animated film, and it flopped pretty badly, opening to $12M and finishing with $38M. However, earlier during the summer, Disney released Lilo & Stitch which opened to $35.2M on its way to a final total of $145.8M, proving that traditional, hand-drawn animation isn’t dead, as long as you can create a story people will enjoy. While Brother Bear won’t reach the heights of this year’s likely box office champ, the computer animated Finding Nemo (currently at $338.7M), it should still do reasonably well. Last weekend, Brother Bear opened on 2 screens and had a per screen average of almost $146,000. With Bear expanding to around 3000 screens, if that per screen average holds, Bear would make approximately $438M this weekend. Staying on the conservative side, as the only new film going wide in the marketplace and having solid reviews, over the two-day period, Brother Bear could see a gross of $18M.”