Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Infobox Film
name = Beverly Hills Chihuahua


caption = Teaser poster
director = Raja Gosnell
producer = David Hoberman
Todd Lieberman
John Jacobs
Ricardo Del Rio
writer = Jeffrey Bushell
starring = Drew Barrymore
George Lopez
Pablo Francisco
Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo
Andy Garcia
Piper Perabo
and Jamie Lee Curtis
music = Heitor Pereira
cinematography = Phil Meheux
editing = Sabrina Plisco
distributor = Walt Disney Pictures
released = flagicon|Kuwait October 1 2008
flagicon|USA October 3, 2008
country = United States
runtime = 85 minutes
language = English
budget =
gross = $42.1 million
website = http://disney.com/chihuahua
amg_id = 1:402096
imdb_id = 1014775

"Beverly Hills Chihuahua" is a 2008 live-action comedy-drama film by Walt Disney Pictures directed by Raja Gosnell.

Plot

A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore) who, while on vacation in Mexico, gets lost and must rely on her friends to help her get back home before she is caught by a dognapper who wants to ransom her. In the meantime, Papi (voiced by George Lopez), a male chihuahua who is in love with her is in pursuit of her. Chloe befriends a lonely german shepard (voiced by Andy Garcia) who travels with her to protect her from the evil doberman (voiced by Edward James Olmos) who wants to return her and her diamond collar to the dognapper.

Cast

Human cast

* Jamie Lee Curtis - Aunt Viv
* Piper Perabo - Rachel Ashe
* Manolo Cardona - Sam

Voice cast

* George Lopez - Papi
* Drew Barrymore - Chloe
* Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo - Rafa
* Andy Garcia - Delgado
* Placido Domingo - Monte
* Edward James Olmos - El Diablo
* Paul Rodriguez - Chico
* Cheech Marin - Manuel
* Luis Guzman - Chucho

Visual effects

* Cinesite in London, using their specially developed pipeline for creating digital muzzle replacements, animated the many talking dogs. The in-house visual effects supervisor is Matt Johnson.

Music

The music to "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was written by composer Heitor Pereira, who recorded the score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Brothers.cite news | author=Dan Goldwasser | url=http://www.scoringsessions.com/news/158 | title=Heitor Pereira scores "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" | publisher=ScoringSessions.com | date=2008-09-23 | accessdate=2008-09-23 ]

Marketing

* The first teaser trailer was attached to "".
* Originally the release was September 26, but was moved to October 3.

Reception

Critical reception

"Beverly Hills Chihuahua" received mixed reviews from the critics. As of October 3, 2008, Rotten Tomatoes reported that 42% of critics gave postive reviews. [cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10008587-beverly_hills_chihuahua | title=Beverly Hill Chihuahua Movie Reviews|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=2008-10-07]

Box office

Beverly Hills Chihuahua made $8,001,448 on its Friday opening day, rose 56.00% on Saturday to $12,482,375, and dropped 29.37% on Sunday to $8,816,642. The film made a total of $29,300,465 on its opening weekend from 3,215 theaters, averaging about $9,114 per theater, and ranking #1 at the box office for that weekend. As of October 9, 2008, Beverly Hills Chihuahua made $35 million in the domestic and $7.1 million in other territories. Leading to a total of $42.1 million worldwide. [cite web|url=http://www.screeninglog.com/journal/2008/10/5/beverly-hills-chihuahua-leads-friday-bo.html|title=Beverly Hills-Chihuahua leads Friday|publisher=Screening Log|accessdate=2008-10-11]

References

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mI808JK6-Q&fmt=18 Teaser Trailer]
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