Top Cat: The Movie | |
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Directed by | Alberto Mar |
Produced by | Fernando de Fuentes Jose C. Garcia de Letona José Luis Massa |
Screenplay by | Timothy McKeon Kevin Seccia |
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Top Cat by William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Starring | Raul Anaya Jorge Arvizu Jesús Guzmán Eduardo Garza Mario Castañeda Ricardo Tejedo |
Music by | Leoncio Lara |
Edited by | Andrés Fernández |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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90 minutes |
Country | Mexico Argentina |
Language | Spanish |
Box office | $14.7 million |
Top Cat: The Movie (also known in Spanish as Don Gato y su Pandilla, literally "Top Cat and His Gang") is a 2011 3D Mexican-Argentine flash animated family action comedy film based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, Top Cat, which ran from 1961 to 1962 on ABC in the United States. The film was produced by Ánima Estudios and Illusion Studios and was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.Top Cat: The Movie premiered in Mexico in 2D and 3D theaters on September 16, 2011. It was a huge commercial success, earning $43,536,074 pesos on its opening weekend at the domestic box office and became one of the biggest box-office openings in Mexican cinema history.
The English version was released in the United Kingdom on June 1, 2012, distributed by Vertigo Films, in RealD 3D and 2D theaters. It was largely panned from critics, but was a moderate box-office success, grossing £2,824,893, the highest amount for a Mexican production. The film had a limited release in the United States on August 2, 2013, starring the voices of Rob Schneider and Danny Trejo.
A computer-animated prequel to the film and the series, titled Top Cat Begins, was released on October 30, 2015.