Question: Which American film was released first, Tex or Snow Dogs?

Context articles: Toys in the Attic (2009 film)
Tex (film)
Snow Dogs
Game (2016 film)
Cheetah Vision
Midnite Movies
The First Bad Man
Tommy Swerdlow
Damion Poitier
Snegithiye

Toys in the Attic (Czech: Na půdě aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny?
 ; festival title: In the Attic: Who Has a Birthday Today?)
 is a 2009 Czech-French-Japanese-Slovak primarily stop-motion animated fantasy comedy thriller family film directed by Jiří Barta and written by Edgar Dutka and Barta which depicts a community of toys and other objects in an attic who come to life when no human is around.
 It is an international co-production of Czech, Japanese and Slovak companies.
 The film was released first in the Czech Republic on 5 March 2009 and has been shown subtitled at film festivals internationally.
 An American dub – adapted, produced and directed by Vivian Schilling and performed by actors including Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack, Cary Elwes and Schilling herself – has been recorded, which the film was first shown with on 3 March 2012 at the New York International Children's Film Festival and was released nationally on 24 August 2012 by Hannover House.
Tex is a 1982 American drama film directed by Tim Hunter (his first film as a director) and written by Charles S. Haas, based on the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton.
 Matt Dillon and Jim Metzler play brothers who struggle after their mother dies and their father walks out on them.
Snow Dogs is a 2002 American Northern adventure comedy film directed by Brian Levant, and starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and James Coburn.
 The film was released in the United States on January 18, 2002 by Walt Disney Pictures.
 The film is inspired by the book "" by Gary Paulsen.
Game in Kannada, Oru Melliya Kodu (English: A thin line) in Tamil, is a 2016 Indian bilingual language crime thriller film directed by A. M. R. Ramesh.
 This movie is an unofficial remake of the 2012 Spanish thriller El Cuerpo (Spanish title) also known as "The Body", and features Arjun Sarja, Shaam and Manisha Koirala in the lead roles.
 With music composed by Ilayaraaja, the film was simultaneously shot in Kannada and Tamil; the former released first on February 26, 2016 while the later released on July 1, 2016.
 The film was dubbed and released in Telugu as "Notuku Potu" in 2017.
Cheetah Vision is an American film production company founded in 2009 by Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson and Randall Emmett.
 The company produces low budget action thrillers for foreign film markets across the world.
 The first project that was filmed was called 'Setup' but the first project to go into production and released first is a film called, 'Gun'.
 In early 2011, 50 Cent landed a $200,000,000 deal for the company, which will fund a 10-picture deal.
 Grindstone/Lionsgate will distribute the films.
 Under the deal, the films will have a budget of around $20 million each.
Midnite Movies is a line of B movies released first on VHS and later on DVD by MGM Home Entertainment.
 The line was begun by MGM in March 2001 following its acquisition of Orion Pictures, which bought out Filmways, the owner of American International Pictures.
 AIP had a library of B movies from the 1950s and 1960s that were science fiction, horror, and exploitation films.
 The "Midnite Movies" collection is primarily derived from the AIP library (including most of Roger Corman's and Vincent Price's horror movies) but also included Hammer Film Productions, Amicus Productions, United Artists, and Empire International Pictures movies as well.
 The DVDs were first released as single films but most later releases would be double features on single double-sided discs.
 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment later became owners of the MGM library and continued the "Midnite Movies" line with distributor 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
 All double feature titles released on the 20th Century Fox label were two-disc packages.
 By 2011, no new titles were forthcoming; the previous catalog titles slowly went out of print and the "Midnite Movies" website was taken down.
The First Bad Man is an American animated cartoon directed by Tex Avery, and features narration by singing cowboy Tex Ritter.
 It was released by MGM on September 30, 1955.
Tommy Swerdlow is an American actor and screenwriter.
 He has appeared in such films as "Howard the Duck" (1986) and "Spaceballs" (1987) and co-wrote the screenplays of "Cool Runnings" (1993), "Little Giants" (1994) and "Snow Dogs" (2002).
 Swerdlow made his directorial debut with the 2017 feature "A Thousand Junkies".
 He has also written a biopic about the life of Matisyahu titled "King Without a Crown".
Damion Poitier ( ) is an American actor and stuntman known for his roles in film and television.
 He received notable media attention after his brief appearance as Thanos in 2012's "The Avengers".
 He has also had roles in "", "Star Trek", "Jarhead", and "Snow Dogs".
Snegithiye (English:Oh Friend! "
(female)" ) is a 2000 Tamil mystery thriller film directed by Priyadarshan.
 The story is loosely based on the 1999 Marathi film "Bindhaast" written by Chandrakant Kulkarni.
 The film notably features only female characters in the lead roles, played by Jyothika, Sharbani Mukherjee, Tabu and Ishita Arun.
 Music was composed by Vidyasagar.
 The film, released in 2000, proved to be an average grosser at the box office but bagged positive reviews from critics.
 Today, it is considered a cult classic that was underrated at the time of its release.
 Originally planned to be made as a bilingual, in Tamil and in Malayalam, the film released first in Tamil only, while the Malayalam dubbed version, "Raakilipattu", as well as the dubbed Hindi version, "Friendship", released seven years later.