MOSCOW , February 2The animated film “Three Heroes and the Navel of the Earth” collected more than 1 billion rubles at the Russian box office, the press service of the Volga film company reported.
“The animated adventure “Three Heroes and the Navel of the Earth” earned 1 billion rubles at the box office. This is the first time in the history of Russian film distribution when a domestic animated film reaches the billion mark,” the report says.
According to the Unified Automated Information System (UAIS) of the Cinema Fund, the film has already collected 1,000,811,820 rubles. The Volga film company released “Three Heroes and the Navel of the Earth” on December 28, the press service recalled.
“»Of course, it’s nice that “Bogatyrs” are showing such box office receipts in their anniversary year; it can’t help but make us happy. During this time, a whole generation of viewers has grown up watching our cartoons, who are accustomed to watching a fairy tale from the studio every year at the end of December.” Mill,” producer Sergei Selyanov is quoted as saying.
He recalled that in 2024 the “heroic franchise” will be 20 years old: the first cartoon “Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent” was released in December 2004. In addition, the 25-year-old The anniversary is celebrated by the animation studio «Melnitsa», which released such animated films as «Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf» and «Luntik».
«Three Heroes» is the largest franchise of full-length animated films in Russia.