Open Season (movie series)

The series of ***Open Season*** movies from Sony Pictures Animation includes four films: _Open Season_ (2006), _Open Season 2_ (2008), _Open Season 3_ (2010), _Open Season: Scared Silly_ (2015), as well as a short movie called _Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run_ (2006). A video game based on the first movie was released on many platforms.

### _Open Season_ (2006)

A 900-pound grizzly bear named Boog living in the town of Timberline (Martin Lawrence) meets Elliot (Ashton Kutcher), a one-horned mule deer. They end up stranded together in the woods during hunting season and they have to beat the hunters with the help of all the other animals. In the end, Boog decides to stay in the forest and says goodbye to his owner Ranger Beth (Debra Messing).

### _Open Season 2_ (2008)

Elliot (Joel McHale) falls in love with Giselle (Jane Krakowski). However, his friend Mr. Weenie (Cody Cameron) is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners. Elliot (who leads the way), Boog (Mike Epps) (who also leads the way), Giselle, McSquizzy (Billy Connolly), Buddy (Maddie Taylor), and Serge (Danny Mann) and Deni (Maddie Taylor) go on a long journey to rescue Weenie. However, the pets, lead by a poodle named Fifi (Crispin Glover), insist on fighting for Weenie. In the end, Mr. Weenie decides to go back to his owners and leave the wild.

### _Open Season 3_ (2010)

Boog (Matthew J. Munn) thinks that Elliot (Maddie Taylor) has not been as close a friend since he started a family with kids of his own. In search for real friends, Boog stumbles upon a circus in Russia where he meets a talented female bear named Ursa (Melissa Sturm) (whom he falls madly in love with) and a clever bear who looks like him, named Doug (Matthew J. Munn). Boog switches places with Doug while so Doug can escape. When Elliot, Mr. Weenie, and the pets and other wild animals realize Boog is missing, they all get together and set up a plan to get Boog back. In the end, Ursa decides to live with Boog and his friends.

### _Open Season: Scared Silly_ (2015)

When an unknown creature gets mistaken for a werewolf, former hunter Shaw (Trevor Devall) reopens open season. With the animals of Timberline National Forest being at risk, Boog (Donny Lucas), Elliot (Will Townsend), and Mr. Weenie (Will Townsend) set out to uncover the mystery of the werewolf, and get open season closed.

### _Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run_ (2007)

A short movie, _Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run_, was released in 2007 and is featured on the _Open Season_ DVD and Blu-ray.

### _Open Season: Call of Nature_ (2023-present)

A television series program focuses about Boog and Elliot discovered an abandoned camp and reveal to live free in the wild.

### Box office performance

|rowspan="2"|Film|rowspan="2"|Release date|colspan="3"|Revenue|rowspan="2"|Rank (Domestic)|rowspan="2"|Budget|rowspan="2"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Open Season_||$85,105,259|$112,203,768|$197,309,027|align="center"|#742|align="center"|$85,000,000|align="center"|||
|_Open Season 2_||rowspan="3"|$8,716,950|$8,716,950|rowspan="3"|rowspan="2"|align="center"|||||
|_Open Season 3_||$7,399,925|$7,399,925|align="center"||||||||
|_Open Season: Scared Silly_||$1,756,154|$1,756,154|align="center"|$5,500,000|align="center"||||||

### Critical reception

|rowspan="2" align="center"|Film|colspan="2" align="center"|Rotten Tomatoes|rowspan="2" align="center"|Metacritic|rowspan="2" align="center"|Yahoo! Movies|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Open Season_|48% (100 reviews)|54% (52 reviews)|49% (18 reviews)|C (11 reviews)||||
|_Open Season 2_||||||||
|_Open Season 3_||||||||
|_Open Season: Scared Silly_||||||||

## Cast and characters

|rowspan="3" width="10%"|Characters|colspan="4"|Main films|colspan="1"|Short films|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="1"|Martin Lawrence|colspan="1"|Mike Epps|colspan="1"|Matthew J. Munn|colspan="1"|Donny Lucas|colspan="1"|Martin Lawrence|
|colspan="1"|Ashton Kutcher|colspan="1"|Joel McHale|colspan="1"|Maddie Taylor|colspan="1"|Will Townsend|colspan="1"|Ashton Kutcher|
|colspan="2"|Jane Krakowski|colspan="2"|Melissa Sturm|rowspan="9" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||||||
|colspan="3"|Cody Cameron|colspan="1"|Will Townsend|||||||
|colspan="2"|Billy Connolly|colspan="1"|André Sogliuzzo|Lee Tockar||||||
|colspan="3"|Danny Mann|Peter Kelamis||||||||
|rowspan="2" colspan="3"|Maddie Taylor|||||||||
|Lee Tockar||||||||||
|Patrick Warburton|colspan="2"|Maddie Taylor|Brian Drummond|||||||
|colspan="3"|Nika Futterman|Shannon Chan-Kent||||||||
|colspan="4"|Michelle Murdocca|||||||||
|colspan="3"|Jon Favreau|Maddie Taylor||||||||
|colspan="3"|Georgia Engel|Kathleen Barr|Georgia Engel|||||||
|||colspan="3"||||||||
|Debra Messing|rowspan="3" colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||rowspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||||||
|Gary Sinise|Trevor Devall|||||||||
|Gordon Tootoosis|Lorne Cardinal|Gordon Tootoosis||||||||
|style="background-color:lightgrey;"||colspan="2"|Crispin Glover|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||||||
|style="background-color:lightgrey;"||colspan="2"|Steve Schirripa|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||||||
|style="background-color:lightgrey;"||colspan="2"|Fred Stoller|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||||||
|style="background-color:lightgrey;"||colspan="2"|Sean Mullen|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||||||
|style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Frank Welker (uncredited; cameo)|Cody Cameron|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||||||
|style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Diedrich Bader|colspan="3" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||||||
|style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Olivia Hack|colspan="3" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||||||
|style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Jacquie Barnbrook|colspan="3" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||||||
|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Matthew J. Munn|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||||||
|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Melissa Sturm|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||||||
|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Dana Snyder|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||||||
|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Karley Scott Collins|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||||||
|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Ciara Bravo|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||||||
|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Harrison Fahn|colspan="2" style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||||||
|colspan="3" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Garry Chalk|style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||||||
|colspan="3" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Kathleen Barr|style="background-color:lightgrey;"|||||||
|colspan="3" style="background-color:lightgrey;"||Trevor Devall|style="background-color:lightgrey;"|==References==||||||

## Infobox (movie)

- **name**: Open Season movie series
- **caption**: The United Kingdom, UK DVD boxset for the first three movies.
- **director**: Jill Culton
Roger Allers
Anthony Stacchi (Co-director) (_1_)
Matthew O'Callaghan
Todd Wilderman (Co-director) (_2_)
Cody Cameron (_3_)
David Feiss (_4_)
- **producer**: Michelle Murdocca
Amy Jupiter
Steve Moore
John B. Carls (_1_)
Kirk Bodyfelt
Matthew O'Callaghan
Michelle Murdocca <small>(exec.)</small>
Andrea Miloro <small>(exec.)</small> (_2_)
Kirk Bodyfelt (_3_)
John Bush (_4_)
- **writer**: Steve Bencich
Ron J. Friedman (_1_)
David I. Stern (_2_ & _3_)
Carlos Kotkin (_4_)
- **starring**: Martin Lawrence
 Ashton Kutcher
 Debra Messing
 Gary Sinise
 Jon Favreau
 <small>(#Cast and characters, More)</small>
- **music**: Paul Westerberg (_1_)
Ramin Djawadi (_1_ & _2_)
 Jeff Cardoni (_3_)
Rupert Gregson-Williams
Dominic Lewis (_4_)
- **editing**: Ken Solomon
Pam Ziegenhagen, Pamela Ziegenhagen-Shefland (_1_)
Steven Liu
Patrick J. Voetberg
Jimmy Sandoval (_2_)
Nancy Frazen
Arthur D. Noda
Jimmy Sandoval (_3_)
Maurissa Horwitz
- **studio**: Sony Pictures Animation (_1_-_4_)
Reel FX Creative Studios (_2_ and _3_)
Rainmaker Entertainment
 (_4_)
- **distributor**: Columbia Pictures (_1_-_4_)
- **released**: _Open Season (movie), 1_: September 29, 2006
 _Open Season 2, 2_: May 24, 2008
 _Open Season 3, 3_: June 27, 2010
 _Open Season: Scared Silly, 4_: September 21, 2015
- **runtime**: 322 minutes
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English