Disney’s ‘Moana 2’ Sets $225.4 Million Thanksgiving Record
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Disney’s ‘Moana 2’ Sets $225.4 Million Thanksgiving Record

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-- Walt Disney Co.’s new Moana 2 brought in ticket sales of $225.4 million in the US and Canada over the long Thanksgiving weekend, researcher Comscore Inc. said Monday, shattering the record held by the company’s Frozen 2 since 2019. The performance of Moana 2, an animated sequel to the 2016 original about a Pacific island girl fighting to save her people from a terrible curse, led a record weekend of holiday sales for theaters, helped also by the recent releases Wicked and Gladiator II. “In order to have a breakout hit post-Covid, you need the multicultural audience,” Tony Chambers, Disney’s executive vice president of theatrical distribution, said of the demographic makeup of Moana 2’s ticket sales. The performance cements a strong recovery for Disney’s movie studio in 2024, with the division producing the only two $1 billion-plus releases so far this year, Inside Out 2 from Pixar Animation Studios and Deadpool & Wolverine from Marvel Studios.

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