'Moana 2' Shatters Box Office Records After Opening Weekend - Full List of Records Revealed!
Moana 2 is huge!
The movie smashed box office records in its opening weekend, opening with a 5-day domestic debut of $221 million, via Disney.
The movie broke the record for the biggest 5-day opening of all time, the biggest Thanksgiving debut and Thanksgiving weekend (3-day and 5-day), the biggest Thanksgiving day, and the biggest Black Friday ever.
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The film reunites Moana (voice of Auli‘i Cravalho) and Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson) three years later for an expansive new voyage, opening with $165 million internationally, bringing its global haul to $386 million so far, the second biggest global debut of 2024.
“Moana 2 has far surpassed our high expectations this weekend and is a testament to the phenomenon that Moana has become,” said Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Alan Bergman.
“We’re fortunate to have an incredibly talented and hard-working creative team at Disney Animation who brought this new adventure to life, alongside our wonderful stars Auli’i and Dwayne and great new music. This is a moment to celebrate, and we’re thankful to all the moviegoers and fans who’ve helped make this a record-breaking debut.”
Domestic records include:
- Biggest 5-day opening of all-time (surpassing The Super Mario Bros. Movie/$204.6M)
- Biggest Thanksgiving weekend of all time by far ($221M 5-day, $135.5M 3-day, surpassing Frozen 2/$125M 5-day and $94M 3-day)
- Biggest Thanksgiving debut by far (more than doubling Frozen/$94M 5-day and $67M 3-day)
- Thanksgiving Day of $28M (nearly doubling Frozen 2/$15M)
- Highest ever Black Friday at the box office with $54.5M (exceeding Frozen 2/$34.2M)
- Biggest Walt Disney Animation Studios debut of all time
- Disney now holds the top 7 Thanksgiving debuts of all time and 9 of the top 10.
This is Disney’s third film this year to surpass $150 million domestically in its opening weekend, alongside Deadpool & Wolverine ($211M) and Inside Out 2 ($155M), marking the three biggest openings of 2024.
International records include:
- Highest animated opening weekend of all time in France
- Second highest animated weekend of all time in Italy and Brazil
- Highest WDAS opening weekend of all time across the Latin American region and in nearly 30 individual markets worldwide, including France, Italy, Australia, Brazil and Mexico
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