3-day forMoana 2is$139.7Mafter a$34.7MSunday, -31% from Saturday.
Where the hell did that $175M projection come from?
exclaimed one non-Disney rival executive this morning, I would get fired if I forecast that!.
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The weekend before, estimates were too high forWickedat $120M on Friday before settling at a $112.5M.
Second weekend on the Jon M. Chu directed movie is $81.1M, -28%.
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Moana 2shined this past weekend from walk-up business given its 100-minute runtime.
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That was -44% from the previous Black Friday 3-day frame of $216.4M.
Comscore reported yesterday AM a total marketplace 3-day of $271M and a 5-day of $420M.
Those figures are obviously higher from what were seeing this AM.
We saw that across three titles this weekend includingWicked($117.5M) andGladiator II($44M).
As we told, its a 5-day Thanksgiving all-time record for the entire marketplace, Comscore reporting$420M.
Disney says 86% went to seeMoana 2in 2D while 14% went to watch in 3D.
PLF 2Ds did 13% of the business while Imax 2D counted 3%.
Final demos were 65% women, 35% male.
At the end of the day with a weekend like this the PLF screens are undersupplied.
The industry needs more if they want to keep pulling moviegoers out of the house.
The Imax holiday weekend haul is 55% higher than the No.
2 IMAX global Thanksgiving weekend, and the third highest global November weekend ever for IMAX.
However, Disney played wise: Rather than project over their skis, they kept it conservative.
Three-day is$140Mnow, which is the second best debut for Dwayne Johnson afterFurious 7s $147.1M.
So, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Tattoo it on your body, studio executives: Musicals arent dead.
ParamountsGladiator 2remains on track for a$45Mfive-day, for a$112.2Mrunning total by EOD Sunday.
Thats nothing to complain about.
Todays business will determine how much to the heavens this Dwyane Johnson-Aulii Cravalho movie goes.
1 films in the same month, the other being Amazon MGM StudiosRed One.
Two-day take onMoana 2stands at$85.5M, while global is just under$110M.
Among all Thursdays,Moana 2is the 8th biggest.
Men and women over 25 gave the movie a 100% score.
AMC Disney Springs reps the sequels best gross so far in the nation with $273K.
ParamountsGladiator 2has been pulling in consistent weekdays, yesterday taking in$6.7M, +2% over Wednesday.
The 5-day forecast on the Ridley Scott directed movie is now$45M.
Running total will be$112.8Mafter 10-days.
The first movie in 2000 ended its stateside run at $187.7M.
That Chris Evans co-star pic will stand at$78.8Mby EOD Sunday.
3-day is at$116M.
The swing factor is tomorrow, Black Friday in regards to how massive, or how shortMoana 2goes.
Dont be surprised if it hits $100M.
He falls for a much younger man, and they go on quite the trip.
Pic is 78% certified fresh with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Not only do people shop, but they go to the movies, too.
And if theres one thing about Thanksgiving forecasts, they always get over-projected.
The 3-day forMoana 2is somewhere around$90M-$100M+.
Black outMoana 2s previews, and the surfer girl is at $40.2M currently.
The 5-day onWickedis estimated at$92M.
The production cost for both parts ofWickedis$320Mbefore P&A.
1, that period amassing$315.6Mper Comscore.
Its looking like we could easily eclipse that benchmark.
