Moana 2 has already emerged as a behemoth in each home and worldwide field places of work and set a number of information, regardless of the lukewarm responses from the critics. The film had its world premiere on November 21, 2024, on the Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute in Kapolei, Hawaii earlier than debuting in US theaters for Thanksgiving weekend on November 27.
Moana 2 field workplace opens with $221 million for Thanksgiving weekend
Moana 2 has made $221 million within the home field workplace over the previous 5 days, receiving the biggest-ever box-office opening for a Thanksgiving weekend launch and a Disney animation film. Internationally, the film has collected $165.3 million as of Sunday, December 1. Moana 2 earned $16.6 million in Tuesday night time previews and $57 million on Wednesday earlier than making a record-breaking $28 million on Thanksgiving. The film then proceeded to make $135.5 million within the subsequent three days. To check, the primary Moana film grossed $248.7 million domestically and $438.4 million in abroad markets. If the present traits maintain, the sequel will quickly surpass the industrial efficiency of its predecessor within the US and Canada.
Powered by this unprecedented efficiency, Moana 2 chartered on the high of the field workplace, outperforming Wicked ($80 million) and Gladiator II ($30.7 million). In a press release, Alan Bergman, the co-chairman of Disney Leisure famous that the success of Moana 2 underscored how fashionable Moana is.
“Moana 2 has far surpassed our excessive expectations this weekend and is a testomony to the phenomenon that ‘Moana’ has turn out to be,” Bergman stated (by way of The Hollywood Reporter). “We’re lucky to have an extremely gifted and hard-working artistic workforce at Disney Animation who introduced this new journey to life, alongside our fantastic stars Auli’i and Dwayne and nice new music. This can be a second to rejoice, and we’re grateful to all of the moviegoers and followers who’ve helped make this a record-breaking debut.”
Notably, the challenge was initially conceptualized as a Disney+ sequence earlier than it grew to become a theatrical sequel.
