Hotel Transylvania

Template:Short description Template:About Template:Pp-protected Template:Italic title Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox media franchise Hotel Transylvania is an American media franchise created by Todd Durham and owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. It consists of four animated feature films, three short films, an animated television series, and several video games.

The first film, Hotel Transylvania, was released in September 2012, with two sequels, Hotel Transylvania 2 and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, released in September 2015 and July 2018, respectively. The films have received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide against a combined production budget of $245 million. A fourth and final feature film titled Hotel Transylvania: Transformania was released on Amazon Prime Video on January 14, 2022, which also received mixed reviews from critics. The series focuses on the adventures surrounding monsters who reside in the titular plaza hotel where they can relax and get away from humans due to fear of persecution.

Origin

Comedy writer Todd Durham came up with the concept of Hotel Transylvania. Durham, after creating the bible for a franchise of several films, television series, video games, books, merchandising, hotel chain, and theme park, took the package unsolicited to Columbia Pictures and set it up at Sony Pictures Animation.

Films

Film	U.S. release date	Director(s)	Screenwriter(s)	Story by	Producer(s)	Distributor
Hotel Transylvania	Template:Start date	Genndy Tartakovsky	Peter Baynham and Robert Smigel	Todd Durham and Kevin Hageman & Dan Hageman	Michelle Murdocca	Sony Pictures Releasing
Hotel Transylvania 2	Template:Start date		Robert Smigel & Adam Sandler
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation	Template:Start date		Genndy Tartakovsky & Michael McCullers
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania	Template:Start date	Derek Drymon & Jennifer Kluska	Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo and Genndy Tartakovsky	Genndy Tartakovsky	Alice Dewey Goldstone	Amazon Studios

Hotel Transylvania (2012)

Template:Main Hotel Transylvania is the first movie of the franchise and it was released in theatres on September 28, 2012. It is about a human named Johnny (Andy Samberg), who accidentally stumbles upon the hotel and instantly falls in love with Dracula's teenage daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez), and eventually dates her, despite Dracula (Adam Sandler) attempting to keep Johnny away from his daughter.

Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Template:Main Hotel Transylvania 2 is the second movie of the franchise and it was released in theatres on September 25, 2015. It is about Mavis and Johnny, who have a half-human/half-vampire son named Dennis. Mavis thinks Hotel Transylvania isn't the right place to raise Dennis and wants to raise him in California. When Dracula is disappointed that Dennis does not have any vampire abilities, he helps his friends make his grandson a vampire. Things get complicated when Dracula's father Vlad (Mel Brooks) shows up.

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)

Template:Main Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation is the third movie of the franchise and it was released in theatres on July 13, 2018. It is about Dracula falling for Ericka (Kathryn Hahn), a great-granddaughter of monster hunter Van Helsing (Jim Gaffigan) while on a cruise ship with his family.

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)

Template:Main Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is the fourth and final movie of the franchise. It was released on streaming through Amazon Prime Video on January 14, 2022. It is about Dracula, now voiced by Brian Hull, and Johnny teaming up to find a cure to turn themselves back into their old selves before their transformations become permanent.

Television series

Hotel Transylvania: The Series (2017–2020)

Template:Main A television series based on the film premiered on June 25, 2017, and ended on October 29, 2020. Developed and produced by Nelvana Limited, in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation, the prequel series focused on the 114/115 years of Mavis and her friends at the Hotel Transylvania. Sony Pictures Television handled distribution in the United States, while Nelvana distributed the series outside the United States. It aired on the Disney Channel worldwide.

Motel Transylvania (2025)

In June 2024, Motel Transylvania, a television series set to debut on Netflix in 2025, was announced. The series is set to focus on Dracula and Mavis opening a motel.

Short films

Goodnight Mr. Foot (2012)

Template:Anchor Goodnight Mr. Foot is a traditionally animated short film based on Hotel Transylvania, featuring Bigfoot from the film. Premiering in time for Halloween, on October 26, 2012, the short was shown exclusively in Regal Entertainment Group Cinemas, before the theatrical shows of Hotel Transylvania. As Sony Pictures Animation's first traditionally animated film, it was written and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky himself, who also animated the short with the help of Rough Draft Studios. Animated in the style of Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, and Chuck Jones, Tartakovsky created the short in four weeks during the final production stages of the main film. Bigfoot (who had a non-speaking role in Hotel Transylvania) was voiced by Corey Burton while the Witch Maid was voiced by Rose Abdoo. Both voice actors provided additional voices in Hotel Transylvania.

Taking place before the events of Hotel Transylvania, the short stars Bigfoot, whose rest in Hotel Transylvania is being constantly disturbed by an overly enthusiastic witch maid.

Puppy! (2017)

Template:Anchor Puppy! is a CG-animated fantasy comedy short film based on Hotel Transylvania, featuring Dennis (voiced by Asher Blinkoff) from Hotel Transylvania 2, with the additional voices of Selena Gomez, reprising her role as Mavis, Andy Samberg as Johnny, and Adam Sandler as Dracula. The film was written and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, and was shown in theaters alongside The Emoji Movie, which was released in the United States on July 28, 2017. The film is set in the hotel, as Dennis convinces Dracula to give him a monster-sized puppy named Tinkles, and the hotel learns to cope with it. The short is a sneak preview of the third film, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, which was released on July 13, 2018; Dracula's final line in the short, "I need a vacation...", further reinforces this.

Monster Pets (2021)

Template:Anchor Monster Pets is a Hotel Transylvania short film featuring Dracula trying to find a pet companion for his lively puppy, Tinkles. The short was played exclusively at Cinemark Theatres on the weekend following April 1, 2021, before select PG-rated films, and was released online on April 9, 2021. It was directed by Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon, written by Kluska, and produced by Christian Roedel. The short marked the first time that Adam Sandler did not return to voice Dracula and was replaced by voice actor Brian Hull. Hull would reprise the role in the film Hotel Transylvania: Transformania.

Reception

Box office performance

Film	Release Date	Box Office Gross			All Time Ranking		Budget (millions)	References
		Domestic	Foreign	Worldwide	Domestic	Worldwide
Hotel Transylvania	September 28, 2012	$148,313,048	$210,062,555	$358,375,603	359	339	$85
Hotel Transylvania 2	September 25, 2015	$169,700,110	$305,099,890	$474,800,000	282	215	$80
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation	July 13, 2018	$167,510,016	$361,073,758	$528,583,774	290	187	$65–80
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania	January 14, 2022	Template:N/A	$18,480,000	$18,480,000	Template:N/A	5,626	$75
Total		$485,523,174	$894,716,203	$1,380,239,377	23	16	$320

Critical and public response

Film	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic	CinemaScore
Hotel Transylvania	45% (143 reviews)	47 (32 reviews)	A−
Hotel Transylvania 2	56% (110 reviews)	44 (24 reviews)	A−
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation	62% (119 reviews)	54 (23 reviews)	A−
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania	47% (78 reviews)	46 (15 reviews)	Template:N/A

Cast and characters

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Characters	Films				Short films			Television series			Video games
	Hotel Transylvania	Hotel Transylvania 2	Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation	[[Hotel Transylvania: Transformania|Template:Small Transformania]]	Goodnight Mr. Foot	Puppy!	Monster Pets	[[Hotel Transylvania: The Series|Template:Small The Series]]		Motel Transylvania	Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard	Template:Small Scary-Tale Adventures
								Season 1	Season 2
Count Dracula	Adam Sandler			Brian Hull	Template:N/A	Adam Sandler	Brian Hull	David Berni	Ivan Sherry	Template:TBA	Brock Powell	Brian Hull
Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran	Andy Samberg					Andy Samberg					Brian T. Stevenson	Danny Gendron
Mavis Dracula-Loughran	Selena Gomez	Selena Gomez		Selena Gomez		Selena Gomez		Bryn McAuley		rowspan="2" Template:TBA	Mellissa Sturm
	Sadie SandlerTemplate:Ref			Victoria GomezTemplate:Ref
Frank	Kevin James			Brad Abrell				Paul Braunstein			Danny Gendron	Brad Abrell
Wayne	Steve Buscemi										Michael Buescemi
Murray	CeeLo Green	Keegan-Michael Key									Keegan-Michael Key	Kyle Chapple
Griffin	David Spade											Daniel Bonjour
Eunice	Fran Drescher							rowspan="3" Template:N/A
Wanda	Molly Shannon
Winnie	Sadie Sandler			Zoe Berri						Template:N/A	Zoe Berri
Blobby	Template:N/A	Jonny Solomon	Genndy Tartakovsky		Template:N/A		Template:N/A					Template:N/A
Bigfoot	colspan="4" Template:N/A	Corey Burton	Template:N/A		colspan="2" Template:N/A
Fly	Chris Parnell		colspan="2" Template:N/A
Quasimodo Wilson	Jon Lovitz							Scott McCord
Martha	Jackie Sandler	Template:N/A
Dennis		Asher Blinkoff	Asher Blinkoff			Asher Blinkoff					rowspan="2" Template:N/A	Asher Blinkoff
		Sunny SandlerTemplate:Ref
Mike Loughran		Nick Offerman
Linda Loughran		Megan Mullally
Vlad		Mel Brooks
Dana		Dana Carvey
Bela		Rob Riggle
Brandon Template:Small		Chris Kattan
Kelsey		Nick Swardson	Michelle Murdocca	Template:N/A
Ericka Dracula (née Van Helsing)			Kathryn Hahn								Julianne Buescher
Professor Abraham Van Helsing			Jim Gaffigan
Stan			Chris Parnell
Kraken			Joe Jonas
Crystal		Template:N/A	Chrissy Teigen
Tinkles			Joe Whyte	Template:N/A		Joe Whyte	Derek Drymon
Puppy Blobby			Genndy Tartakovsky	Template:N/A			Genndy Tartakovsky
Gremlin Pilot			Aaron LaPlante
Gremlin Stewardess
Party Monster				Richard "Ninja" Blevins
Toots							Jennifer Kluska
Aunt Lydia								Dan Chameroy
Wendy Blob								Evany Rosen
Hank N. Stein								Gage Munroe
Pedro								Joseph Motiki
Uncle Gene								Patrick McKenna
Klaus								Carter Hayden

• A grey cell indicates character did not appear in that medium.

Crew

Role	Films				Television series
	Hotel Transylvania	Hotel Transylvania 2	Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation	Hotel Transylvania: Transformania	Hotel Transylvania: The Series	Motel Transylvania
Director	Genndy Tartakovsky			Derek Drymon and Jennifer Kluska	Robin Budd	Template:TBA
Producer	Michelle Murdocca			Alice Dewey Goldstone	Jane Crawford	Template:TBA
Co-producer(s)	Lydia Bottegoni	Skye Lyons	Carey A. Smith	Ryan Gilleland	Template:N/A	Template:TBA
Executive producer(s)	Adam Sandler Robert Smigel Allen Covert	Adam Sandler Robert Smigel Allen Covert Ben Waisbren	Template:N/A	Genndy Tartakovsky Michelle Murdocca Selena Gomez	Rick Mischel Scott Dyer Irene Weibel	Template:TBA
Writer(s)	Template:Small Peter Baynham Robert Smigel Template:Small Todd Durham Dan Hageman Kevin Hageman	Robert Smigel Adam Sandler	Genndy Tartakovsky Michael McCullers	Template:Small Amos Vernon Nunzio Randazzo Genndy Tartakovsky Template:Small Genndy Tartakovsky	Various	Template:TBA
Composer(s)	Mark Mothersbaugh				Stephen Skratt Asher Lenz	Template:TBA
Editor(s)	Catherine Apple		Joyce Arrastia	Lynn Hobson	Template:N/A	Template:TBA
Production Companies	Sony Pictures Animation	Sony Pictures Animation LStar Capital MRC	Sony Pictures Animation MRC		Sony Pictures Animation Nelvana Corus Entertainment	Sony Pictures Animation
Distributor	Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Releasing			Amazon Studios	Sony Pictures Television	Netflix

Video games

A social game based on the film, titled Hotel Transylvania Social Game and made by Sony Pictures Interactive, was released on August 15, 2012. The game allows players to create their own Hotel Transylvania, where they must take care of the hotel's guests.

Another video game, titled Hotel Transylvania, developed by WayForward Technologies and published by GameMill Entertainment, was released on September 18, 2012, for Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS at retail. The Nintendo 3DS version of the game was also released digitally in the Nintendo eShop in North America on November 15, 2012.

A mobile game, titled Hotel Transylvania Dash, developed by Sony Pictures Consumer Products Inc. and PlayFirst, was released to iTunes App Store on September 20, 2012. The game is a variation of Hotel Dash and features the film's art and characters.

A mobile storybook game, titled Hotel Transylvania BooClips Deluxe, developed by Castle Builders and Sony Pictures Animation, was released on the iTunes App Store, Nook Store, Google Play for Android, iBookstore, Microsoft's Metro, and for PC and Mac via BooClips, both in English and in Spanish, on September 20, 2012.

A third video game based on Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Hotel Transylvania 3 Monsters Overboard, published by Outright Games, was released on July 13, 2018.

A video game based on the franchise, Hotel Transylvania: Scary-Tale Adventures, developed by Drakhar Studio and published by Outright Games, was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One on March 11, 2022.

Theme park attractions

In December 2016, a dark ride based on the franchise opened at Motiongate Dubai, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In April 2021, another ride based on the film series opened at Dream Island in Moscow, Russia. In October 2021, a new themed-land, based on the film franchise, opened at Columbia Pictures Aquaverse in Sattahip, Chonburi, Thailand.

External links

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• Monster Pets short on YouTube