Refresh for up to date…: Disney’s Moana 2 is off to a splashy begin in its early international box office markets, diving in at $8.8M on Wednesday from 10 whole with the sequel No. 1 in every. Included in that bunch, France noticed the perfect opening day of 2024 and the twond highest animated opening day of all time, whereas Indonesia logged the highest animated launch day ever (extra market milestones beneath).
Globally, the overall by Wednesday is $66.3M because the Dwayne Johnson/Auli’i Cravalho-starrer continues to set new benchmarks domestically. Recall that, conversely to home, this isn’t a key vacation interval abroad – which makes among the early-wave offshore numbers and milestones all of the extra spectacular.
Coming into the offshore body, the projected international box office opening by Sunday is $100M+. If play continues as thus far demonstrated in these early abroad markets, that quantity is more likely to swell.
In France, Wednesday’s $3.7M reps the No. 2 largest animated opening of all time (behind solely Incredibles 2), and the largest opening day of the 12 months. The beginning was 302% forward of Moana (+75% together with previews), 43% above Frozen 2 (40% together with previews) and 44% over Inside Out 2 (-13% together with previews).
Indonesia’s $1.2M debut is the largest animated opening day of all time, and finest for a non-local film this 12 months. At 83% market share, Maui, Moana and mates debuted greater than 8x larger than the unique movie, 5x larger than Discovering Dory, 261% forward of Incredibles 2, 254% above Inside Out 2 and 111% forward of Frozen 2.
In Korea, the place Seoul and the encompassing areas on Wednesday had been hit with the heaviest snowfall for the month of November in 117 years, Moana 2 however delivered $1.1M for the No. 3 largest opening day ever of a Walt Disney Animation Studios/Pixar launch (behind Frozen 2 and Inside Out 2). Launch day was 154% forward of Moana, 150% over Discovering Dory, and 54% above Incredibles 2. (The estimated cume out there by at present, not included within the totals above, is $1.76M.)
With $900K, Italy gave Moana 2 the 2nd finest launch day ever for WDAS title (behind Ralph Breaks the Web which opened on a vacation). The beginning is 308% forward of Moana, 13% forward of Frozen 2 and 71% beneath Inside Out 2 which had college holidays within the combine.
Philippines’ $700K on Wednesday is the No. 2 animated bow ever (behind Inside Out 2), and the 2nd finest non-local begin of 2024. Opening day was 324% forward of Discovering Dory, 165% forward of Incredibles 2, 76% forward of Moana and 73% forward of Frozen 2.
Opening at present are Germany, Mexico, Australia and Brazil. Friday provides the UK, Spain and China. In whole this opening session, this can rep about 90% of the worldwide footprint as Japan goes per week later, on December 6.
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