In a surprise to many in the industry, The Weinstein Company’s Hoodwinked came away with the most box office goodies making it top of the woods (Hollywood, at least) this holiday weekend with $16.6 million according to Box Office Mojo. “The first of over a dozen computer-animated movies scheduled for [a wide opening in] 2006 – a record amount that more than doubles the output of any past year – …Hoodwinked cost less than $20 million to make, and, though the pop culture riff on Little Red Riding Hood made a fraction of fellow fractured fairy tale Shrek, the opening more than doubled the last low-rent computer-animated affair, Valiant”.

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