Animated offering Home is where the hearth is at the Friday box office.

The music-infused family film will earn an estimated $13.5 million for the day, putting in on course for a strong $50 million-plus debut in a needed win for Jeffrey Katzenberg's DreamWorks Animation. Home will have no trouble trumping Get Hard, the new R-rated comedy starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart.

Home will mark one of the best showings ever for an original title from DWA, not accounting for inflation, besting the $46 million debut of Megamind in 2010.

The voice cast includes Rihanna in her first turn in an animated film, Jim Parsons, Jennifer Lopez and Steve Martin (expect lots of singing from Rihanna and Lopez). Home follows the adventures of a teenage girl on the run and a misfit alien.

Home, costing $130 million to make, got off to an outstanding start last weekend internationally, grossing $20.1 million from only 10 markets, including a $9.1 million debut in the U.K.

Outside of How to Train Your Dragon 2, DWA suffered a dismal 2014. The animation studio announced in February that it took a $57.1 million writedown on Penguins of Madagascar and Mr. Peabody and Sherman, which opened to $32.2 million in spring 2014 (Peabody had solid legs in the U.S., but didn't travel well overseas). DWA has said it intends to raise money by selling its Glendale campus for $185 million, then leasing back the space.

Get Hard is looking to open to $33 million-plus, a pleasing start considering the film cost $40 million to make. The comedy marks the feature directorial debut of Etan Cohen.

Get Hard stars Ferrell as a wealthy businessman who thinks he's going to jail for tax evasion, so he hires a car washer to teach him how to survive being in prison for 10 years. Alison Brie,Edwina Findley and Craig T. Nelson also star.

Heading into the weekend, both films were tipped to gross in the mid-$30 million range, but Home is exceeding expectations.