Business Friendly: The Movie

Business Friendly: The Movie is a 1997 American 3D children'sflash/computer-animated comedy-adventure animation film. This movie is directed by Sarujan Ravikumar. With a budget of $200 million, this is the most expensive GoAnimate Studios Animationfilm to date. The movie was a colossal failure, and the film also opening to negative reviews with a rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes of 1% based on 125 reviews and failed to recoup it's $200 million budget grossing $5.2 million worldwide. This failure caused ideas of a television series to be scrapped and canceled. The film was already made to be a box office failure because not only the poor marketing as well as poor/overused 3D effects, and also, it would have been strong competition from Disney's Coco, and Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Last Jedi with Sony Pictures Entertainment making a $40 million write-down on Sptember 1997 while already knowing that the film will not do good at box office.

Plot
Loud is a monkey that suffers from down syndrome who wants to become accepted into the family. Coming soon!

Theatrical release
Lionsgate who owns international distribution to the film released it first in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2008 making only $12,200 and was removed from theaters the week after.

The film released on September 1, 1997, but it bombed at the box office because of heavy competition from Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Coco. This film caused Business Friendly Studios to sell itself to Everest Picturesbecause of the lackluster box office performance of this film.

Critical response
The film received generally negative reviews with rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes of 1% based on 125 reviews.

Box office
Business Friendly: The Movie has grossed $3.7 million in the United States and Canada and $1.5 million with a total of $5.2 million worldwide against a break-even point of $700 million making the film the biggest box office bomb of all time losing Business Friendly Studios a total of $300 million putting the studio in bankruptcy. Sony and Lionsgate didn't lose money due to being distributor only and already paying their finance fees.

Rating
The film is rated PG by the MPAA for "Mild Crude Humor and Brief Suggestive Comments"

Home media
Business Friendly: The Movie was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2009 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. In the United States and Canada, the film will be released on DVD, Digital, and Blu-ray on February 23, 2010 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Video game
A video game based on the movie was released on June 7, 2007 which received positive reviews with critics saying that "the video game is better than this mediocre movie it's based on."