Dwayne Johnson voices Maui in Disney Animation’s “Moana 2.”
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The Walt Disney Firm’s field workplace domination continued over the vacation weekend.
“Moana 2” topped $1 billion through the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, changing into the studio’s third 2024 launch to succeed in the coveted benchmark after Marvel Studios’ “Deadpool and Wolverine” and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2.” No different Hollywood studio had a movie cross $1 billion final yr.
“Moana 2” snared $442.8 million on the home field workplace and $567.1 million in worldwide markets, the corporate posted over the weekend. It’s the fourth movie from the Walt Disney Animation arm to surpass $1 billion in ticket gross sales alongside “Frozen,” “Frozen II” and “Zootopia.”
This feat is one other feather within the cap for Disney, which had struggled within the years after the pandemic to achieve tractions with its animated releases. A lot of the corporate’s difficulties stemmed, partially, from choices to debut a handful of animated options instantly on its streaming service Disney+. This educated dad and mom to search for new content material at dwelling even after theatrical closures ended and movies returned to cinemas.
“Inside Out 2” not solely marked a return to kind for Disney, however it helped jumpstart the general home field workplace in June. It snared greater than $650 million domestically and have become the primary movie since Warner Bros′ “Barbie” to high $1 billion on the international field workplace.
It additionally marked the primary time a Pixar or Walt Disney Animation movie generated greater than $480 million on the international field workplace since 2019. “Inside Out 2″ in the end turned the highest-grossing movie of 2024.
“Deadpool and Wolverine,” “Inside Out 2” and “Moana 2,” together with a handful of different theatrical releases, helped Disney attain greater than $2.2 billion on the home field workplace final yr, accounting for about 25% of the trade’s complete haul, based on knowledge from Comscore.
With “Moana 2” crossing the billion-dollar mark, Disney now has 32 billion-dollar motion pictures — together with three movies it acquired when it purchased Fox in 2019, based on the corporate. For context, there have solely been 56 movies which have topped $1 billion on the international field workplace, that means Disney is liable for practically 60% of the highest-grossing movies in cinematic historical past.
