The Boss Baby: Family Business
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| Directed by | Tom McGrath |
| Screenplay by | Michael McCullers |
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| Based on | The Boss Baby and The Bossier Baby by Marla Frazee |
| Produced by | Jeff Hermann |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $82 million |
| Box office | $146 million |
The Boss Baby: Family Business (known in other territories as The Boss Baby 2) is a 2021 American animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. Loosely based on the 2010 picture book The Boss Baby and its 2016 sequel The Bossier Baby by Marla Frazee, it is the second installment in The Boss Baby franchise, serving as the sequel to the 2017 film The Boss Baby. The film was again directed by Tom McGrath from a screenplay by Michael McCullers, and a story by McGrath and McCullers. It stars the voices of Amy Sedaris, Ariana Greenblatt, Jeff Goldblum, and Eva Longoria, with Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Kimmel, and Lisa Kudrow reprising their roles from the first film and James Marsden replacing Tobey Maguire. The film follows the now-adult Templeton brothers as they are brought back together after Tim's daughter Tina requests their help for Baby Corp to stop a professor from erasing childhoods worldwide.
Plans for a Boss Baby sequel were announced in May 2017 with McGrath returning to direct. Animation began at DWA Glendale and some production assets were borrowed from Jellyfish Pictures, with voice acting being done remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The film was theatrically released in the United States on July 2, 2021, in traditional and select RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema and 4DX locations, by Universal Pictures; it also streamed on paid tiers of Peacock for 60 days. The film received negative reviews from critics and grossed over $146 million worldwide against a budget of $82 million.