The Little Vampire 3D | |
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Directed by | Richard Claus Karsten Kiilerich |
Written by | Script: Richard Claus Larry Wilson [1] |
Produced by | Richard Claus Chris Brouwer |
Music by | Vidjay Beerepoot |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 82 minutes [3] |
Countries | Netherlands Germany Denmark |
Languages | English Dutch German Danish |
Budget | $10 million [4] |
Box office | $13.8 million [5] |
The Little Vampire 3D, also known as The Little Vampire, is a 2017 3D animated vampire film directed by Richard Claus and Karsten Kiilerich, loosely based on the 2000 live-action film of the same name and based on the characters of the children's book series of the same name by German writer Angela Sommer-Bodenburg. [2] [6]
Jim Carter and Alice Krige reprised their roles from the 2000 live-action adaptation of The Little Vampire.
The film had its world premiere in the Netherlands on 5 October 2017. It was released in Germany, Denmark and Italy on 26 October, [7] and in the UK on 25 May 2018. It received 19,767 admissions in Danish cinemas, [8] and had a worldwide gross of $13,808,590. [5] The UK theatrical and DVD versions were cut by 29 seconds in order to remove a scene involving electricity in order to achieve a U rating from the BBFC. [3]
The film received generally negative reviews from critics, [6] [9] [10] and on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a score of 14% based on 14 critical reviews, indicating a "rotten" score. [11]
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