Asterix: The Land of the Gods (French: Astérix - Le Domaine des Dieux) is a 2014 French-Belgian 3D animated adventure comedy film, based on the comic book Asterix : The Mansions of the Gods, which was the seventeenth book in the highly popular comic series Asterix by Goscinny and Uderzo. The film sticks to the book's plot very closely. The film was released on November 26, 2014 in France across 696 theatres and earned $7.64 million on its opening week from nearly 780,000 admissions placing at No. 1 at the box office ahead of Hollywood blockbuster films The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Interstellar which were in their second and fourth weeks respectively. The film's opening weekend is also the third highest of 2014 in France. Its opening weekend outperformed other animated movies' openings of Frozen, Tangled, Monsters, Inc. and Cars. Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter said, "Astier and Clichy manage to make the material at once enjoyable and meaningful, while also prov...