The original release date, set for April 22, 2011, [9] 

was moved to March 11, 2011. Red Riding

Hood grossed $14,005,335 in ticket sales over the opening weekend, placing at number #3,
behind Battle: Los Angeles and Rango.[10] At the end of its run in 2011, the film grossed $37,662,162
in the United States and Canada, and grossed $51,500,000 internationally for a worldwide total of
$89,162,162.

Red Riding Hood has a 10% approval rating at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 208
reviews, with an average score of 3.75/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Amanda Seyfried is
magnetic in Red Riding Hood's starring role, but she's let down by her uninspired leading men and a
painfully clichéd script."[12] Metacritic calculated a score of 29 out of 100 based on the opinions of 36
critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[13]
USA Today complimented the production design, but wrote that, "it's a foolish story, marred by a
strange blend of overacting and bland, offhand performances." [14] Roger Ebert gave the film one star
out of four, stating it is "a movie that cross-pollinates the Twilight formula with a werewolf and a girl
who always wears a red-hooded cape, although I don't recall her doing any riding... it has the added
inconvenience of being serious about a plot so preposterous, it demands to be filmed by Monty
Python."[15]
Mary Pols of Time magazine named it one of the 10 worst films of 2011. [16]
The teaser trailer and the poster were released in November 2010, featuring "The Wolf", a new song
written exclusively for the film by Swedish act Fever Ray.[17]
The second trailer was released in January 2011, featuring "The Hand That Feeds" by Nine Inch
Nails.
The novelization by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright received criticism for not including the story's final,
concluding chapter, which instead was only made available for download online following the release
of the film