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Thanksgiving 5-Day U.S. Box Office Hitting Amazing All-Time $420M High; AMC Boss Adam Aron Declares “A National Phenomenon” – Update

Thanks to 'Moana 2', 'Wicked' and 'Gladiator II', the Thanksgiving box office is seeing an all-time domestic record of $422M.

Distribution sources always felt we were in for an enormous moviegoing rebound in the post Covid-post strikes era fueled by the massive want-to-see of Disney’s Moana 2, and the second weekends of Universal’s Wicked and Paramount’s Gladiator 2. When tentpoles are of a great quality, all boats rise, and here we have three movies with very good Rotten Tomatoes audience scores: Wicked(96%), Moana 2(87%) and Gladiator II(83%) over-indexing. Next year, there’s Wicked: Part 2 on the pre-Thanksgiving Friday, as well as Paramount’s Edgar Wright reboot of The Running Man with Glen Powell and Josh Brolin, an untitled Warner Bros/New Line movie, and Angel Studios’ animated David.

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