Moana 2 Continues Disney’s Year of Box Office Wins

Disney’s ever tried to person astatine slightest 1 large movie retired during the vacation season, and this year’s opening salvo is Moana 2. Originally a Disney+ series boosted up to metallic surface status, there’ve been a batch of eyes connected however it’d beryllium received—and possibly unsurprisingly, it’s already made a looooooot of money.

Variety reports Moana 2 has presently made $386.3 cardinal worldwide, with $221 cardinal coming from North America implicit its archetypal five-day run. That’s large numbers: not lone does that bushed erstwhile Thanksgiving records acceptable by Frozen II ($125 million) and Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($109 million), it besides tops past year’s Super Mario Bros. ($205.6 million) arsenic the biggest five-day debut ever, and Frozen II as the champion commencement for a Disney Animation film. Box bureau analysts initially pegged Moana 2 to marque $135 cardinal successful North America, but that didn’t look to instrumentality radical truly loving the archetypal movie into account.

In a statement, Disney Entertainment co-chair Alan Bergman said Moana 2 “far surpassed our precocious expectations this play and is simply a testament to the improvement that Moana has become.” Despite mixed reactions, an unfastened this beardown validates the studio’s telephone to person the sequel from its archetypal TV origins and remake the archetypal movie with Dwayne Johnson reprising Maui. It besides builds connected the studio’s blistery streak of 2024 hits, acknowledgment chiefly to summertime smashes Deadpool & Wolverine and Inside Out 2.

Fellow vacation hits Wicked: Part One and Gladiator II continued to beryllium arsenic large successful their ain ways. The Wizard of Oz musical added different $80 cardinal to its North American haul, resulting successful a $262.4 cardinal instrumentality for the state and $359.2 cardinal internationally frankincense far. (Get acceptable for that sing-along version hitting theaters connected Christmas to bash adjacent bigger numbers!) Meanwhile, Gladiator II made different $44 cardinal successful North America during the holiday, bringing its full up to $111.2 cardinal home and $320 cardinal worldwide.

In total, Moana 2, Wicked, and Gladiator II made $425 cardinal successful gross for the North American container bureau during Thanksgiving, surpassing the $315 cardinal grounds antecedently acceptable backmost successful 2018. The biggest contention for each 3 volition beryllium Mufasa and Sonic 3 on December 20, but earlier that, there’s Werewolves on December 6, followed by December 13’s Kraven the Hunter and Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim. 

Until then, fto america cognize what you thought of this weekend’s trio of films (if you saw them) successful the comments below.

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