Moana 2 Led A Record-Breaking Thanksgiving at the Box Office
/Film Daily
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🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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On the December 2, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by no one to talk a little about the weekend’s box office numbers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Monday, December 2nd, 2024 on today's |
| 0:05.4 | episode of the show. I'm going to talk a little bit about the weekends box office numbers. |
| 0:09.2 | My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slashfilm.com, and I wanted to mention two things at the top |
| 0:14.5 | of today's show. First of all, it's just going to be me, Ryan Scott, who normally is here on Monday to talk about box office stuff with me is not |
| 0:21.2 | available. I don't think for, maybe for the rest of this week. So I will be manning this episode |
| 0:28.2 | solo and trying to do my best to bring you guys a little bit of box office information here. |
| 0:33.2 | Obviously, Ryan's the expert in that category. So I'll do my best in his stead. And the second |
| 0:38.1 | thing I'll mention is that you might be able to tell from my voice, I'm finding a bit of a cold. |
| 0:43.0 | So if I sound strange, that might be why or stranger than usual anyway. So I apologize for that. |
| 0:50.1 | If there's anything bizarre going on with my voice. That is what's happening there. |
| 0:55.4 | Also, this is going to be a shorter episode than normal because, as I mentioned, Ryan really |
| 0:59.9 | knows his stuff when it comes to this. And I'm definitely more flailing compared to our normal |
| 1:05.4 | conversations since I'm running this one all by myself today. Okay, so with all of that said, |
| 1:12.7 | holy cow, what a Thanksgiving at the box office. So there was a massive, massive record shattering Thanksgiving five-day |
| 1:19.3 | stretch here. More than $425 million in ticket sales across all of the movies of the box office, |
| 1:26.1 | which really obliterates the previous Thanksgiving record of $316 million all the way back in 2018. |
| 1:33.3 | A big part of the reason for that, of course, is Moana 2. |
| 1:37.0 | This movie was projected to have a five-day opening somewhere in the $120 to $135 million range, but it actually pulled in almost double the lower |
| 1:47.0 | end of expectations. I think the final numbers that I saw just a few minutes ago were a $225.2 |
| 1:55.0 | $2.5.2 over the five-day holiday period, which is pretty staggering. And that's just domestic |
| 2:00.1 | numbers. So Moana 2 earned |
| 2:02.2 | $389 million in its global opening, breaking the record for the biggest global opening |
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