{"id":1505216,"date":"2024-11-30T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1505216"},"modified":"2024-11-30T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T09:15:00","slug":"moana-wicked-gladiator-ii-set-to-shatter-thanksgiving-box-office-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/moana-wicked-gladiator-ii-set-to-shatter-thanksgiving-box-office-records\/1505216\/","title":{"rendered":"Moana,\u00a0Wicked,\u00a0Gladiator II\u00a0Set To Shatter\u00a0Thanksgiving Box Office Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moana,\u00a0Wicked,\u00a0Gladiator II\u00a0Set To Shatter\u00a0Thanksgiving Box Office Records<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em> cited impressive data showing that Disney’s Moana sequel, Universal’s Wicked, and Paramount’s Gladiator II are set to break US box-office records for the\u00a0Thanksgiving holiday week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Thanks to the potent combination of Disney’s Moana sequel, Universal’s Wicked and Paramount’s Gladiator II, overall five-day revenue will hit a high for the long Turkey Day holiday, or well north of $400 million (the previous best was 2018 with $316 million),<\/strong>” the media outlet wrote in a report on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Here’s more from the report:<\/p>\n

Disney’s fantasy musical Moana 2 opened to a <\/em>record-shattering<\/em><\/strong> $57.5 million on Wednesday, followed by $28 million on Thursday \u2014 the <\/em>biggest Thanksgiving of all time and the fourth-biggest Thursday for a non-opening day<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Rival studios show the animated sequel opening north of $200 million \u2014 as in $225 million or more \u2014 but Disney won’t comment until Friday so as to avoid what happened last weekend when Wicked and Gladiator II came in millions lower than estimated.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Moana 2 will <\/em>shatter numerous records in its launch<\/em><\/strong>, including becoming the top Thanksgiving opening of all time for the five days, beating Frozen ($94 million). It will also pass up Frozen II ($125 million) to become the top earner for the five days. And it has already served up the top opening day ever for a Walt Disney Animation title and the third-biggest opening day for any animated title behind Incredibles 2 and Inside Out 2, not adjusted for inflation. It was also the third-biggest day of 2024 to date behind Deadpool & Wolverine and Inside Out 2.<\/em><\/p>\n

As of early Friday afternoon, Bloomberg dropped this headline…<\/p>\n

DISNEY SEES ‘MOANA 2’ SETTING THANKSGIVING WEEKEND RECORD<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Moanapocalypse’ hits the box office.<\/p>\n

\u2018MOANA 2\u2019 already crossed $100M globally.<\/p>\n

The film had a $150M budget. pic.twitter.com\/JKSyqLAGKS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Hollywood Handle (@HollywoodHandle) November 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday week,\u00a0AMC Entertainment Holdings, the\u00a0world’s largest movie theater chain, reported<\/a> record revenue last weekend<\/strong>. The chain operates\u00a0900 theaters with 10,000 screens globally, including 660 theaters and 8,200 screens in the US.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Naturally,\u00a0we are pleased that at our US theatres<\/strong>, AMC just recorded our highest revenues for a pre-Thanksgiving weekend in AMC’s entire history. Similarly, it is thoroughly satisfying that fully 4.6 million people graced our AMC Theatres<\/strong> in the US and Odeon Cinemas abroad over the just completed four days Thursday to Sunday. What a\u00a0wonderful way to head into what we expect will be a busy and entertaining holiday moviegoing season<\/strong>,”\u00a0AMC Chairman and CEO Adam Aron wrote in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In markets, the ‘meme’ stock AMC hovers around the $5 handle as traders on this quiet half-day overlooked this week’s Thanksgiving box-office blowout.<\/p>\n

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Bloomberg data shows 13.3% of the float is short<\/strong>, or about 49.8 million shares.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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We covered AMC earlier this week in a note titled “‘Meme’ Stock AMC Reports Pre-Thanksgiving Revenue Record.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Redditors are more focused on crypto pumps than meme stocks…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 11\/29\/2024 – 23:15<\/span><\/p>\n

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Moana,\u00a0Wicked,\u00a0Gladiator II\u00a0Set To Shatter\u00a0Thanksgiving Box Office Records The Hollywood Reporter cited impressive data showing that Disney’s Moana sequel, Universal’s Wicked, and Paramount’s Gladiator II are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1505217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}