Penguins of Madagascar is a computer-animated adventure comedy film directed and produced by DreamWorks Animation, distributed by 20th Century Fox. Based on The Penguins of Madagascar, the film premiered on November 26th, 2014. It is DreamWorks Animation's 30th movie. This movie Showed up after Rocky and Bullwinkle. The film received generally positive reviews, but under-performed, grossing $373 million worldwide against it's $132 million budget. The film's performance forced another write-down for the studio.