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Moana 2 leads finest post-Thanksgiving field workplace of all time

12/10/2024

After 2023 smash-hit Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan is breaking field workplace data as soon as once more. Sorry, Nolan-heads—he doesn’t have a brand new film out. But you positively already knew that as a result of it looks as if you all purchased tickets to see Interstellar‘s IMAX re-release (sure, it really occurred), which introduced in a strong $4.4 million this previous weekend.

But whereas Interstellar followers could also be a bit caught in time, they nonetheless helped humanity uncover its finest post-Thanksgiving field workplace ever. That’s virtually as spectacular as colonizing a planet. This crop of movies introduced in $132 million throughout the board, smashing 2018’s earlier document of $120 million (through Deadline). Moana 2 and Wicked led the refrain for a second weekend in a row, with $52 million and $34.9 million respectively. What the hell, let’s throw Gladiator II in there with the musicals too after Saturday’s singing SNL stunt. The Paul Mescal-led movie retained its bronze-medal place with an extra $12.5 million.

There was quite a lot of shakeup within the general record this weekend, as movies like Venom: The Last Dance and The Wild Robot, which have held locations for weeks, had been utterly pushed out. Telegu-language sequel Pushpa: The Rule – Part 2 clocked in at quantity 4 this weekend, for instance, beating out returning gamers like Red One and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Then there’s Kyle Mooney’s dial-up catastrophe movie Y2K, which simply made it into the leaderboard at quantity eight, however—with $2.1 million—made lower than half the returns of Interstellar, a film that got here out a full decade in the past. Maybe Y2K was a catastrophe (for A24 no less than) in spite of everything.