<P> The film was released on September 28, 2012, and was met with mixed critical reception, while the general public received it favorably . Despite this, Hotel Transylvania earned a total of $358 million against a budget of $85 million at the box office . The film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film . It launched a franchise with a sequel titled Hotel Transylvania 2, which takes place seven years after the film, released in 2015, and a third film scheduled for 2018 . A television series based on the film premiered on Disney Channel in June 2017, and it focuses on the teenage years of Mavis and her friends at the Hotel Transylvania . </P> <P> In the aftermath of the death of his wife Martha (Jackie Sandler) at the hands of an angry human mob, Count Dracula (Adam Sandler) commissions and builds a massive five - star, monsters - only hotel in Transylvania in which he raises his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) and to serve as a safe - place getaway for the world's monsters from fear of human persecution . </P> <P> Famous monsters such as Frank (Kevin James) and his wife Eunice (Fran Drescher), Wayne and Wanda Werewolf (Steve Buscemi and Molly Shannon) and their massive immediate family, Griffin The Invisible Man (David Spade), and Murray the Mummy (CeeLo Green) often come to stay at the hotel which is completely human - free and safe for monsters . </P> <P> On Mavis's 118th birthday, Dracula allows his daughter to leave the castle in order to explore the human world, but he sets up an elaborate plan using his zombie bellhops disguised as humans to make them seem intimidating, but without her being in any danger, and frighten her home . The plan works, but the zombies inadvertently lead a 21 - year - old human named Jonathan (Andy Samberg) back to the hotel . Dracula frantically disguises him as a Frankensteinesque Monster and passes him off as "Johnnystein",' a distant cousin of Frank's right arm' . </P>

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