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This Is What a $425 Million Box-Office Weekend Looks Like
The Wicked–Gladiator II–Moana 2 trifecta laid waste to the previous Thanksgiving-weekend record.
Disney’s Moana 2 sailed past the box-office doldrums of 2024 and crested all financial expectation to solidify a new record as the biggest-ever Thanksgiving blockbuster: $221 million domestically over the holiday corridor. And while Moana ’s follow-up was originally intended as a limited series for Disney+ (a measure of the studio’s low faith in its IP), during a quarterly earnings call in February, the House of Mouse announced a sequel would be navigating into choppy waters at the multiplex. Bottle pee–er Dwayne Johnson, who voices the boisterous South Pacific super-human Maui in Moana 2, logged two movies in the top five over the weekend; his Amazon MGM Christmas-on-creatine action flick, Red One, came in a distant fourth with $18.7 million in North American receipts.
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