Walt Disney Animation Studios has scored its largest home animation debut of all time with Moana 2. The movie’s three-day weekend debut of $135.5 million, and five-day whole of $221 million are each data for a WDAS movie, beating 2019’s Frozen II, which launched with a three-day of $130.2m and a five-day if $163.8m.
Disney can also be claiming these further home data:
- Biggest Thanksgiving weekend of all time
- Biggest Thanksgiving debut
- Biggest Thanksgiving Day of $28m
- Highest ever Black Friday on the field workplace with $54.5m
- Biggest five-day opening of all-time
On the latter document, the studio is claiming the most important five-day opening of all-time by surpassing The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s $204.6 million, nevertheless it didn’t surpass the five-day opening of The Lion King remake, which grossed $243.2 million. (The discrepancy is predicated on “Hollywood accounting” that counts a five-day opening provided that it runs Wednesday-Sunday, and never Friday-Tuesday as was the case of The Lion King.)
But nonetheless you view it, Moana 2 is a serious hit for Disney, and sure an enormous reduction for its storied animation studio after flops like Wish and Strange World. The movie’s three-day launch of $135.5 million is the fifth-best ever for an animated movie behind 2019’s The Lion King ($191.8m), Incredibles 2 ($182.7m), Inside Out 2 ($154.2m), and The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($146.4m).
International play was additionally stellar. Disney is reporting $165 million internationally, bringing this weekend’s international cume to $386m. The largest overseas territory was France, the place the movie grossed $18.8m. Disney is claiming it because the highest-animated opening weekend of all time in that nation. The studio can also be touting that Moana 2 delivered the second-highest animated weekends of all time in Italy and Brazil.
Further, Walt Disney Animation Studios recorded its best-ever launch throughout the Latin America area, in addition to 30 particular person markets worldwide, together with France, Italy, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico. The high overseas markets are France ($18.8m), U.Ok. ($15.5m), Mexico ($11.1m), Germany ($10.5m), Italy ($9.3m), South Korea ($9.1m), Australia ($8.3m), Brazil ($7.5m), China ($6.5m), and Spain ($5.5m).
