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'Moana 2' Box Office: Which Records Did Walt Disney Animation Smash?
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- Published: Tuesday, 03 December 2024 17:27
Bob Iger's gamble paid off with MOANA 2 smashing box office records this Thanksgiving holiday. Originally slated for a Disney+ premiere, Iger mandated the sequel go the theatrical route, and the follow-up broke a few box office records.
Dwayne Johnson and Auli‘i Cravalho return to voice their fan-favorite characters. In its five-date debut, the animated musical earned a whopping $386 million globally. MOANA 2 is Disney's third film this year to surpass $150 million domestically in its opening weekend. The sequel joins Marvel Studios’ DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE ($211M) and Pixar’s INSIDE OUT 2 ($155M) as the studio's highest earners for 2024.
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With a 5-day domestic debut of $221M, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Moana 2” is shattering numerous box office records including the biggest 5-day opening of all time, the biggest Thanksgiving debut and Thanksgiving weekend (3-day and 5-day), the biggest Thanksgiving day, and the biggest Black Friday ever. The film, which reunites Moana (voice of Auli‘i Cravalho) and Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson) three years later for an expansive new voyage, opened in most markets around the world with $165M internationally, bringing its global cume to date to $386M, the second biggest global debut of 2024.
In summary, below are the record-breaking facts.
Domestic records include:
• Biggest 5-day opening of all-time (surpassing “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”/$204.6M)
• Biggest Thanksgiving weekend of all time by far ($221M 5-day, $135.5M 3-day, surpassing “Frozen 2”/$125M 5-day and $94M 3-day)
• Biggest Thanksgiving debut by far (more than doubling “Frozen”/$94M 5-day and $67M 3-day)
• Thanksgiving Day of $28M (nearly doubling “Frozen 2”/$15M)
• Highest ever Black Friday at the box office with $54.5M (exceeding “Frozen 2”/$34.2M)
• Biggest Walt Disney Animation Studios debut of all time.
• Disney now holds the top 7 Thanksgiving debuts of all time and 9 of the top 10.
This is Disney’s third film this year to surpass $150M domestically in its opening weekend, alongside Marvel Studios’ “Deadpool & Wolverine” ($211M) and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” ($155M), marking the three biggest openings of 2024.
“Moana 2” is off to a strong start internationally as well, driven by No. 1 openings around the world.
• Highest animated opening weekend of all time in France
• Second highest animated weekend of all time in Italy and Brazil
• Highest WDAS opening weekend of all time across the Latin American region and in nearly 30 individual markets worldwide, including France, Italy, Australia, Brazil and Mexico
It is now open in all markets except Japan, Thailand, and Hong Kong, releasing in all three in the coming week.