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Box Office: ‘Moana 2’ Sets Disney Animation Record With $13.8 Million in Tuesday Previews
"Moana 2" is expected to bring in $135 million over its first five days in theaters.
The studio and movie theater owners are especially thankful for the windfall that “Moana 2” is poised to bring because the follow-up to the Polynesian adventure was developed as a television show for Disney+ before it was retooled into a feature film. Auliʻi Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson reprise their voice roles as the eponymous heroine (who is not a princess) and the tattooed demigod Maui in the sequel, which picks up as Moana journeys far into the ocean to find a hidden island and break a curse. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who penned catchy tunes like “How Far I’ll Go” and “You’re Welcome” for the first film, didn’t return for the second, instead passing songwriting duties to Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, the duo behind “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical.”
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