Moana 2‘s historic weekfinish at the box office is not only filling Disney’s cpresents but bolstering its case for an Oscar nomination.
The movie has shattered sign up after sign up since its start on Thanksgiving eve, serving up a massive $221 million for the five-day weekfinish, including $135.3 million from Friday to Sunday. That could help its bid to shatter into a crowded animation field, with some Academy voters seeing more preferably upon blockbusters or the movie srecommend advantageing from being culturpartner top-of-mind.
In recent years, meaningful animation hits such as Spider-Man: Apass the Spiderverse, The Boy and the Heron and Toy Story 4 have all been nominated for best energeticd feature; the latter two won.
The first Moana was nominated for best energeticd feature after its free in 2016. But experts have seen that as a more slick proposition this year, with The Wild Robot, Inside Out: 2, Wallace & Grleave out: Vengeance Most Fowl, Memoir of a Snail and Piece by Piece helping to produce it an unusupartner procreate and diverse year for energeticd films. The tardyst Feinberg Forecast has the new Moana on the outside seeing in, and critics have been more luketoasty on it too; the film is at 65 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, a brimming 30 points drop than its predecessor.
Still, the box office could help — especipartner since foreseeations were so much drop than the results. Heading into the holiday, Walt Disney Animation’s sequel was tracking to discdisponder at $125 million-$135 million for the five-day weekfinish contrastd to the $221 million it finished with. But need showd high for the progressd adventures of the brave Moana, voiced once aget by Auli’i Cravalho, and the demigod Maui, voiced aget by Dwayne Johnson. Directed by David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller, the sequel chases the youthful heroine as she embarks on an unforeseeed adventure in lengthy-lost waters after receiving a call from her ancestors.
The film easily beat the previous five-day-weekfinish discdispondering sign up of $204 million held by 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie. For the five-day Thanksgiving weekfinish, the new Moana sailed past the previous sign up of $125 million held by Frozen II, albeit in that film’s second weekfinish. Moana 2 also now hageders the sign up for hugegest three-day debut of a Disney Animation film, also previously held by Frozen II. All of the numbers are not adfaired for inflation.
Overseas, Moana 2 begined off with $165.3 million for a global bow of $386.3 million, after coming in at No. 1 in pretty much every country it discdispondered in save for China.
Moana‘s journey to becoming a franchise was rare, to say the least. The innovative 2016 movie was a firm but not spectacular carry outer, and the sequel was originpartner increaseed as a Disney+ series. Then the innovative became a cultural phenomenon and the most-streamed movie apass all platcreates in 2023, according to Nielsen, directing to a retool as a feature film.
A total of 31 films are eligible for energeticd feature this year as the movies vie for five slots. In insertition to members of the animation branch, other Academy members can pick to vote if they pledge to watch a smallest number of films.
Oscar nominations will be declared Jan. 17.
