The cartoon “Three Heroes and the Navel of the Earth” became the highest-grossing Russian cartoon, collecting more than 1 billion rubles at the box office. writes about this TASS.
“Next year marks the 20th anniversary of our heroic series; The first cartoon “Alyosha Popovich and Snake Tugarin” was released in December 2004. During this time, a generation of viewers has grown up watching our cartoons who are accustomed to watching a fairy tale from the Melnitsa studio every year at the end of December,” said Sergei Selyanov, head of the film studio.
He also noted that the studio management made more conservative predictions about the success of the film, but they were happy to break the box office record in Russian cartoons.
The 12th cartoon of the Three Heroes series was released on December 28. Volga is responsible for animation rental. The production was carried out by Melnitsa studio. The previous animated movie “Three Knights and a Horse on the Throne” was released in theaters on December 30, 2021.
“Three Heroes” is a Russian franchise consisting of full-length cartoons telling about the adventures of the three most famous heroes – Alyosha Popovich, Dobrynya Nikitich and Ilya Muromets. The first project of the series was “Alyosha Popovich and Snake Tugarin” (2004). Later, the animated films “Dobrynya Nikitich and the Snake Gorynych” (2006) and “Ilya Muromets and the Robber Nightingale” (2007) were released.
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