Ignore the corporate noise: Disney dominates the Thanksgiving box office with ‘Wakanda Forever’ and ‘Strange World’

Call it a holiday tradition that’s as commonplace as yams on the Thanksgiving table, but Disney is poised to rule the five-day holiday season again after victories in 2016 (Moiana), 2017 (coconut), 2018 (Ralph breaks the internet), 2019 (frozen 2) and last year (Encanto), how Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverthe third weekend seems to be enough 40 million dollars on Wednesday-Sunday and Disney Animation’s strange world hope to express $30M+. All of this happens when Bob Iger is reinstated as Disney’s CEO and the studio’s distribution czar, Kareem Daniel, leaves the studio.

That’s not exactly the best result for a Disney family film to open in the 5-day period, a number down from last year Encanto which grossed $40.5 million. Part of the dilemma with strange world is the fact that it’s original animation, which is also a hard sell. The film follows a family of explorers, the Clades, as they venture into an uncharted, treacherous land with a ragtag team that includes a mischievous knob, a three-legged dog and a host of predators.

While Disney was criticized for not waking up enough when Chapek got into his own mischash with Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill, the studio fully embraced an LGBTQ+ plot point here strange world with character Ethan (voiced by Jaboukie Young-White) who has a crush on another boy in the film. Disney is not giving in to overseas pressure to redact this content in certain territories, and as Nancy Tartaglione reported earlier today, the studio is accepting a voluntary pass in more than 20 markets where it won’t be released strange world, Read Middle East, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Vietnam, East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya), West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana), Maldives, Nepal and Bangladesh. strange world It cost $135 million before P&A and the film currently has a fresh rating of 72% on Rotten Tomatoes. By the holiday season, Disney will ditch the Disney+ movie, which isn’t the case wakanda forever, which has a longer theater window. While strange world‘s marketing said nothing about the gay character, the picture’s talent said a lot about it during their press tour.

strange world opens in 4,000 theaters this Wednesday with previews starting Tuesday at 6 p.m. The number of Pic theaters consists of 2,000 3D locations, more than 250 PLF cinemas and more than 100 4D/DBox screens. Wakanda forever ended its second weekend on $66.4 million-63% for a ten day running total of $287.1 million.

Saturday at 2pm local time at 1,200 locations, we’re also going after family visits with paid previews from Universal/DreamWorks Animations Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The university held sneak previews during Black Friday weekend last year sing 2

Mature content fills out the rest of the league, and unfortunately this fall has been the case for several older counter shows, all of which are single digits. If anything doubles millions from Wednesday to Sunday, it’s like, “Wow.”

United Artists Releasing’s expansion of Luca Guadagnino’s romantic road movie about cannibalism bones and such going from five locations in NYC and LA to 2,700 for what is expected $7 million – $9 million last longer than 5 days. Women aged 18 to 34 dominated last weekend’s Timothee Chalamet film and are expected to buy tickets. Preview tomorrow at 7pm.

The joke here, which might steal some adults, is Netflix’s week-long preview release Glass Onion: A Mystery of Blades. The sequel has been booked into 638 theaters and will only run for a week, regardless of how much money it makes, before going dark and returning to the OTT service on December 23rd. As previously reported, all three major circuits hit the Netflix tentpole for the first time — AMC, Regal, and Cinemark, the latter of which already played the streamer’s product. When knife out 2 If the service comes, theaters can rebook the sequel. No previews on Tuesday. No numbers are reported via streamer either $6 million – $8 million The 5 day forecast is estimated by competing sources. Netflix distributes its holistic P&A everywhere from movie theaters to picture streaming drops with key spots bought Sunday NFL. Yellowstone, SNL, The Walking Dead Final. iSpot estimates that Netflix made about $4.3 million from spots that generated 65 million impressions, which is about half of what Universal has already spent The Fables in his previous campaign. A brilliant 93% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes for the latest sequel from Rian Johnson and star Daniel Craig, who returns as detective Benoit Blanc.

Sony has signed a distribution deal for Black Label Media’s fighter film Korean War Navy mission, what is being watched $7 million – $8 million at 3,400. Previews begin tomorrow at 2,950 locations at 2,950 locations for this older one-pager featuring Jonathan Majors and Top Gun: Maverickby Glen Powell. The pic debuted at TIFF and has a recent Rotten Tomatoes rating of 77% fresh.

Steven Spielberg’s autobiography from Amblin/Universal The Fables widened to about 600 on Wednesday, the five-day forecast is in the single digits. It’s been almost ten days since the Pano Dano-Michelle Williams-Seth Rogen-Judd Hirsch-Gabriel LaBelle family drama was released in four theaters $310,000.