rihanna-tip-oh-homeAnimated offering ‘Home’ is where the hearth is at the North American box office.

In a needed victory for Jeffrey Katzenberg’s DreamWorks Animation, the music-infused family film topped Friday’s chart with $15.6 million from 3,708 theaters for a projected $55.5 million weekend — the best showing for an original DWA title in recent years and vastly exceeding expectations.

Home, opening to an estimated $15.6 million, is nearly twice as much as Mr. Peabody & Sherman’s $8 million debut around this same time last year. It’s also well above the first How to Train Your Dragon ($12.1 million), and last year’s Rio 2 ($12 million).

Home’s voice cast includes Rihanna in her first turn in an animated film, Jim Parsons, Jennifer Lopez and Steve Martin (expect lots of singing from Rihanna and Lopez). Home follows the adventures of a teenage girl on the run and a misfit alien.

The movie, costing $130 million to make, got off to an outstanding start last weekend internationally, grossing $20.1 million from only 10 markets, including a $9.1 million debut in the U.K.

Weekend Projections
1. Home – $56 million
2. Get Hard – $36 million
3. Insurgent – $21.5 million
4. Cinderella – $18 million
5. It Follows – $4.2 million

March 27th, 2015

The wait is finally over, DreamWorks ‘Home’ is officially in theaters in the US. It has already become a big hit in the UK, where it debuted at #1.

The film has released in several countries outside the US, and will be available worldwide very soon. Check out some adorable photos in our gallery, of the characters from ‘Home’.

Download the Home Boov Pop! Game to see an exclusive behind the soundtrack video of Rihanna, available in the App Store and Google Play.

Don’t forget to get the ‘Home’ Original Soundtrack as well, which features 3 songs by Rihanna – “Towards The Sun”, “Dancing In The Dark” and “As Real As You And Me”.

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Rihanna recently met up with Vanity Fair Italia, to chat about her DreamWorks ‘Home’ character, the music in the film, her career and her mother.

The issue featuring Rihanna is out on newsstands on March 25.


Rihanna describes her character Tip and how she can relate to her.

“Tip is strong, independent. Not to be discouraged, she knows what she wants and never gives up, without waiting for the help of others. She’s a little cheeky as I was. However sensitive. It sounds strange, but I’m very shy. I can only spontaneous if I’m fine with those around me.”

Rihanna talks music, and how she always wanted to be a singer.

“I love the scene where Tip plays as song to Oh, who’s never heard music in his life and doesn’t understand what’s happening, so he tries to stop himself from dancing. Music is my life forever. When I was little, in Barbados there was only one TV channel: there was the time slot of the newscast, to Beautiful, Sesame Street and documentaries.

“On Sunday, finally, there were music videos on all day. I could stay inside the whole day listening to Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Bob Marley. I enjoyed mimicking their every song. And by doing a lot of imitating I found my voice. I was only a child when I decided I wanted to do singing as a profession, which I remember very clearly. I was eight years old, and my little brother had just been born, and I told myself that I wanted to do music, music gets you places in the world where I have never been.”

Rihanna talks about her mother, who is a lot like Tip’s mom.

“I recognize a lot in the relationship between Tip and her mother. My mom is a force of nature. I know that everyone says: I have the best mother in the world. But I’m really convinced. She has always filled me with affection and has never tried, nor has judged my friends. Her presence reassures me. I’m glad it was Jennifer Lopez who got to be the voice of my character’s mother. When she speaks, I feel the same warmth and the same security that my own mother gives me.”

Rihanna says she knows what it’s like to be an outsider.

“Oh is an alien, Tip is a human: the music is just one of many things that make them, for background, very different. But gradually they discover a number of similarities. It is the basis of friendship, when one begins to know and you stop judging them. I know what it means to feel, like them, an outsider. The first time it happened to me as a child in Barbados, was when I moved and I ended up in a school where I knew no one. And then when at sixteen I landed in New York, where I was know as “the girl who is from the island.'”

Rihanna explains what Home means in the film, and tells what home means to her.

“Home, in the film, is all about reuniting with the people you love. For me, they are always around, the lifeline, when I return in the evening to my hotel room, is the TV: news, reality shows, movies, documentaries, cartoons. I learned to call any place where I feel safe as home. But there is no place like Barbados. My beaches, my family, my food, my music. Home, for me, it’s right there.”

March 25th, 2015

DreamWorks Home

The animated DreamWorks film Home, which features the voices of Rihanna, Jim Parsons and Steve Martin, took in £6,260,000 ($9,100,000) over the weekend, debuting at No.1 on the UK box office.

Released in the country on March 20, Home beat The Divergent Series: Insurgent to the top spot, which raked in almost £3m ($4.46m).

Home — hitting theaters in the U.S. on Friday, March 27 — took an impressive $9.1 million in its opening weekend, the biggest debut for an animated film since The Lego Movie bowed to $12 million in February 2014, and the biggest launch for a DWA title outside of the Shrek franchise.

Home Soundtrack iTunes

The ‘Home’ Original Motion Soundtrack, featuring three songs by Rihanna, is available on iTunes worldwide. Rihanna is the executive producer of the album, which also includes artist Jennifer Lopez, Kiesza, Charli XCX and more.

“I think music is important to every film. I think it sets the tone, in the moment. It creates the sensitivity, the suspense, no matter what film it is, especially in animation” Rihanna commented in a recent interview. “I’ve had an incredible time making music for this film” she added.

While there are two days left until ‘Home‘ hits theatres, get the original soundtrack now on iTunes smarturl.it/HomeSoundtrack.

Rihanna attends Home premiere in Los Angeles

The special screening for DreamWorks ‘Home’ was held today (March 22nd), at Regency Village Theater in Westwood.

Rihanna brought her niece Majesty to the premiere, whom she pushed around in a stroller, made to look like the hovering car that her character Tip drives in the film.

Rihanna, rocking yet another pink outfit, gladly posed with children on the purple carpet and gave interviews to promote ‘Home’.

For this premiere, Rihanna’s family including her mother, brothers and cousins, also attended the event.


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