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‘Moana 2’, ‘Wicked’ & ‘Gladiator II’ Driving Record Post Thanksgiving Frame Near $130M – Saturday AM Update
What’s the trick to keeping the post-Thanksgiving period alive? Great holdovers from the holiday weekend before.
One of the dullest box office periods historically of the year is not in 2024 with all films grossing
$129M, the best this frame has ever seen. That surpasses the previous record back in 2018 when all movies totaled $120M. And that’s because this weekend is powered by
Moana 2 (
$50.8M, still a record for a No. 1 movie in this corridor),
Wicked (
$32.7M) and
Gladiator II (
$12.9M).
It’s not like any major studio dared to launch a tentpole this weekend, a la Warner Bros. back in 2003 with Tom Cruise’s
The Last Samurai ($24.2M). Genre has typically worked here in a niche form, but not this year as A24’s Rachel Zegler-led
Y2K is blipping out with a
$2.1M opening and a C- CinemaScore. While arthouse distribs like NEON and A24 have low thresholds for success, and this Kyle Mooney-directed horror comedy cost under $15M, $2M+ isn’t anything to brag about — if it gets there. And it’s certainly not good for Zegler. Over the summer, NEON opened the Hunter Schafer movie
Cuckoo to $3M, with a $6.2M final. The point is that Zegler has been in bigger movies a la
The Hunger Games prequel and the Oscar-winning
West Side Story; meaning she’s the poster face to sell those films
. The movie is booked at 2,108 theaters, and if there was a time to release this film, it was now as there won’t be any screens come Christmas with
Mufasa and
Sonic the Hedgehog 3.