Hotel Transylvania weekend box office could reach $40m in the United States and Canada HT may turn out to be Sony Pictures Animation's biggest all-animated box-office blockbuster ever. According to studio estimates found at the web site Box Office Mojo, the $85 million-budgeted HT -- with the box-office-boosting assistance of 3D surcharges -- brought in $11 million at 3,349 North American locations on Friday, Sept. 28, and is expected to earn near $40 million by Sunday evening. (Above HT image: Adam Sandler -- who hasn't been very lucky of late at the domestic box office) as Dracula, Selena Gomez as the young character Mavis.) If so, that's about $10 million more than early Friday estimates indicated; it's considerably more than the amount earned by the previous Sony Pictures Animation all-animated domestic box-office champ, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; and it means that the terrible domestic box-office drought may have come to a close. HT could even end up boasting the most successful September opening ever at the domestic box office. The current "official" September leader is the Reese Witherspoon movie Sweet Home Alabama. Also, Rush Hour, with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Brett Ratner. Hotel Transylvania voice cast Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, the Hotel Transylvania voice cast includes Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs's Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler movies: Three Mississippi, That's My Boy, Zookeeper, Jack and Jill with Al Pacino, Grown Ups 2 with Taylor Lautner, Grown Ups with Chris Rock, Funny People, James L. Brooks' Spanglish with Tea Leoni, Cloris Leachman, Paz Vega; I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Just Go with It with Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Aniston; Click, Reign Over Me, Bedtime Stories, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, The Hot Chick, The Longest Yard, Anger Management, 50 First Dates, Eight Crazy Nights, Mr. Deeds (remake of Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, with Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur), Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love, with Emily Watson; The Animal, Little Nicky, The Waterboy, Big Daddy, Dirty Work, The Wedding Singer, with Drew Barrymore. Also: Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, and David Spade. Screenplay by Robert Smigel and Peter Baynham. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and featuring the voices of Andy Samberg, Anna Faris, James Caan, and Neil Patrick Harris, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. The Smurfs, with Katy Perry. Looper: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises / Premium Rush / (500) Days of Summer / Latter Days) / Bruce Willis (Moonlighting / The Last American Action Hero / The Bonfire of the Vanities / In the Cold Light of Day / The Expendables 2) Directed by Rian Johnson, elements with Chris Marker's La jetée and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt). Also in the Looper cast: Emily Blunt (The Administration Bureau / The Devil Wears Prada / The Young Victoria), Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine / There Will Be Blood), Piper Perabo (The Prestige / Coyote Ugly), and Jeff Daniels (Terms of Endearment / Dumb and Dumber / The Purple Rose of Cairo / The Hours). Considerably less successful is 20th Century Fox's Won't Back Down, toplining Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart / Sugar Baby) and Viola Davis (The Help / Doubt, with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams). Directed by Daniel Barnz, Won't Back Down also features Oscar Isaac (Zack Snyder's Sucker's Punch), Holly Hunter (Jane Campion's The Piano / Catherine Hardwicke's Thirteen / Broadcast News), and Rosie Perez (Peter Weir's Fearless / Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing).