Happy Feet

But this movie opened to $40.8 million at the box office, which is the seventh highest opening weekend of any film in 2006.

And yet it did not open at number one, because as we talked about two weeks ago, it was beaten out by Happy Feet by $700,000.

And it was stuck behind Happy Feet in weeks two and three and never hit number one.

It finished with a domestic total of $167 million, which was good enough for ninth on the U.S. list, right behind Ice Age 2.

Incredibly, nearly 75% of its total box office was international.

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I was just listening to the Happy Feet episode before we started recording.

I think people like Allegiant.

I've seen Happy Feet.

I'm good with S.

Should we do

But am I correct that the... thing that began you on the track that started you on the track of this game was watching a kids movie

uh you know i love being a dad and watching kids movies with my daughter and we watched happy feet and uh there's that bit where they all go down the

slide and

I was like, oh, that would actually make a pretty good game.

And you can start to think that this is somewhat of like a traditional game.

There are a lot of...

Love crafting games where it would be like this and you might play as like an American detective Who finds himself in the thick of it and they need to like broker peace between the two sides and like stop Cthulhu and that's not the game at all like the mechanics of the game is that thing that you described when you were watching happy feet you are a not just one penguin, but you are like shifting between Penguins you are the group So I want to go back to what you were saying earlier of, you know, how do you tell a Lovecraftian story when you also have the challenge of not wanting to have the main perspective be that of the xenophobe racist? And here you have the player playing as a penguin, which at first, it's a goof, right? That's the fun.

You see it.

Directed by George Miller.

You might recognize that name because he directed things such as Happy Feet and Babe, Pig in the City.

yep yep that's what everyone knows him from babe picking the city such classics as

oh also all those uh was it mag mag max magma magamax magamax make america post-apocalyptic again magamax movies actually that's kind of what uh mel gibson is now right yeah he's very magamax But then written by Michael Christopher, who wrote Gia, the Angelina Jolie lesbian movie.