Moana 2’s third-week box office success sets the course for Disney repeating a feat from 2019. Before completing its first month in theaters,the sequel already beat the first installment’s five-month worldwide grossingof $643 million.Moana 2’s new and returning castis key in sparking a renewed interest in the franchise, as adding new characters has given a fresh perspective while expanding on familiar dynamics that made the original great. The demigod twist inMoana 2’s endingeffectively sets up future installments, not to mention the confirmed live-action and possible sequels and TV shows about characters like Maui and Simea.
DespiteMoana 2’s reviewsbeing considerably worse than the first, its early box office numbers surpass the first movie by a lot, positioning it to become the studio’s favorite franchise in the years to come. BeatingFrozen 2’s record of having the biggest Thanksgiving opening gross of all time, the biggest Black Friday gross of all time, and the biggest opening day for a Disney animated movie,Moana 2is on its way to becoming one of the highest-earning animated movies of all time, possibly getting Disney an achievement that hasn’t happened in 5 years.
Moana 2 Gives Disney A Chance To Have All Three Highest Grossing Movies Of 2024
Moana 2 Is 252M Away From Beating Despicable Me 4 For Place Three In The Box Office
This year, Disney could have the top three box office titles. Currently, the three highest-grossing movies of 2024 areInside Out 2,Deadpool & Wolverine, andDespicable Me 4. In fourth place, with two more weeks until 2025,Moana 2is approximately 252 million away from taking third place, and it seems likely it will. Notably,Despicable Me 2ended in third place with $970 million at the 2013 Worldwide Box office againstFrozenandIron Man 3. Given how wellMoana2is performing, it seems likely the sequel will beatDespicable Me 4.
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While it may not surpass the total earnings ofFrozen 2(1.4 billion),Moana 2’s box office will reach a billion, aspredictions believe it will double whatMoanaearned in 2016. It remains to be seen if it will complete this feat by the end of the year. Whether or notMoana 2gets into the top three, its performance is still shocking. While the first movie ended up in twelfth place among the highest-grossing releases, the sequel will probably end between third and fifth place, depending on its performance against the last releases of 2024.
Disney Was The Last Studio To Have The Year’s Top Three Box Office Earners Worldwide In 2019
Mufasa: The Lion King Could Also Help Disney Repeat The Box Office Achievement
While Robert Eggers’sNosferatuand Pedro Almodóvar’sThe Room Next Doorare set to receive wide critical acclaim in the next weeks, their genre isn’t one likely to break box-office records.Moana 2’s true competitor isMufasa: The Lion King, as the franchise’s first remake ended up in second place at the 2019 box office, earning an impressive $1.6 billion. Notably, it’s unlikely thatSonic the Hedgehog 3will represent any threat to either of the late Disney animated releases, as the first movie got merely $319 million worldwide and the second $405 million.
Disney Hits New Box Office Achievement Unlikely To Ever Be Beat
With the success of Deadpool & Wolverine, Disney has managed to achieve a massive box office record, one that will probably never be beaten.
While it is uncertain if the Disney prequel will receive the huge attention that the first did,Mufasa: The Lion King’s Rotten Tomatoes score predictionssuggest it could outshine its predecessor, withIf Beale Street Could Talkdirector Barry Jenkins behind it. With only two weeks before the end of 2024,Moana 2would seem like the strongest contender for third place. Funnily enough, if either movie beatsDespicable Me 4,Disney would be able to claim the top three highest-grossing movies, repeating its box office success from five years ago.
Moana 2
Cast
Moana 2 is the sequel to the 2016 animated film Moana. Directed by David G. Derrick Jr., Jason Hand, and Dana Ledoux Miller, the film continues the journey of Moana as she embarks on new adventures, exploring the vast Pacific Ocean while encountering new characters and challenges along the way.
