Moana 2 is having fun with a historic journey on the field workplace, the place it has shattered file after file since its launch on Thanksgiving eve.
Heading into the vacation, Walt Disney Animation’s sequel was monitoring to open to an already big $125 million to $135 million for the lengthy five-day weekend (Wednesday-Sunday). As an alternative, the music-infused household movie served up a magical $221 million for the 5 days, together with $135.3 for the three-day weekend, due to the pent-up demand to witness the continued adventures of the fearless Moana, voiced as soon as once more by Auli’i Cravalho, and the demigod Maui, likewise voiced once more by Dwayne Johnson.
The Thanksgiving menu additionally included Common’s record-smashing Depraved and Paramount’s Gladiator II. The trio of movies resulted within the greatest Thanksgiving of all time when it comes to home vacation income, which reached $420 million — greater than $100 million forward of the earlier file set in 2018 with $316 million, based on Comscore.
Abroad, Moana 2 began off with $165.3 million for a worldwide bow of $386.3 million, after opening No. 1 all over the place save for China.
Moana‘s journey to changing into a franchise was uncommon, to say the least. The unique 2016 film was a stable, however not spectacular performer, and the sequel was initially developed as a Disney+ sequence. That’s, till the 2016 pic reworked into an everlasting cultural phenomenon amongst youngsters and have become probably the most streamed film throughout all platforms in 2023, based on Nielsen.
Directed by David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller, the sequel follows the younger heroine as she embarks on an surprising journey in long-lost waters after receiving a name from her ancestors. Maui, after all, exhibits up as nicely.
“Moana 2 has far surpassed our excessive expectations this weekend and is a testomony to the phenomenon that Moana has change into,” Disney Leisure co-chairman Alan Bergman stated in an announcement. “We’re lucky to have an extremely proficient and hard-working inventive crew at Disney Animation who introduced this new journey to life, alongside our fantastic stars Auli’i and Dwayne and nice new music. It is a second to rejoice, and we’re grateful to all the moviegoers and followers who’ve helped make this a record-breaking debut.”
Under are the data damaged up to now, based on Disney and Comscore. Grosses are usually not adjusted for inflation.
Greatest 5-Day Debut of All Time, Interval
Moana 2 (November 2024): $221 million
The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film (April 2023): $204 million
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (July 2010): $200 million
Transformers: Darkish of the Moon (July 2011): $163 million
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (July 2009): $158 million
Greatest 5-Day Thanksgiving Earner All Time by a Mile (Together with Holdover Movies)
Moana 2 (2024): $221 million
Frozen II (2019): $125 million
Depraved (2024): $117.5 million
The Starvation Video games: Catching Hearth (2010): $110 million
Frozen (2013): $93.6 million
Greatest 5-Day Thanksgiving Nationwide Opening, By a Mile and Then Some
Moana 2 (2024): $221 million
Frozen (2013): $93.6 million
Ralph Breaks the Web (2018): $84.8 million
Toy Story 2 (1999): $80.1 million
Coco (2017): $72.9 million
Greatest Walt Disney Animation Three-Day Debut of All Time
Moana 2: $135.5 million.
Frozen II: $130.3 million
Greatest Black Friday Gross of All Time
Moana 2: $54.5 million
Frozen II: $34.2 million
Greatest Thanksgiving Day Gross of All Time
Moana 2: $28 million
Frozen II: $15 million
Greatest Opening Day for a Walt Disney Animation Title, And Extra
Moana 2: $57.5 million
Frozen II: $42.2 million
Amongst all animated movies, Moana 2 boast the third-biggest opening day behind 2024’s Inside Out 2 ($71.3 million) and 2018’s Incredibles 2 ($63.6 million). The latter two movies are each from sister Disney studio Pixar.
Overseas Highlights
Moana 2 scored the second-biggest worldwide launch of the yr up to now behind fellow Disney pic Deadpool & Wolverine.
France led all markets with an astronomical $18.8 million, the largest opening of all time for an animated movie. In different main markets, it scored the scored the second-biggest animated opening in Italy and Brazil. And it boasts the largest opening for a Walt Disney Animation title throughout the Latin American area and in practically 30 particular person markets worldwide, together with Australia and Mexico.