‘Wish’ tops Thanksgiving box office with $75M, ‘Napoleon’ opens – Deadline

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Disney’s original animation is looking to return this Thanksgiving. Princess pic he wishes Seen as much $45 million – $50 million Over the course of five days after the studio suffered a setback during last year’s holiday strange world, Who did $18.8 million.

With strikes over and Thanksgiving week considered prime time to go to the movies with K-12 schools off all week and colleges off on Thursdays and Fridays, there’s a lot of hope from Hollywood for a bumper box office. All films combined to gross $134 million during the Wednesday-Sunday period in 2022. And remember, Black Friday is one of the richest days of the year at the domestic box office.

External version of he wishes It is a Disney/Pixar style tiered approach racist, with only 43% entering overseas markets this week, including key markets in the UK, Spain, Mexico and China, as well as India, Benelux, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines. All in, 25 million dollars Expected from overseas, where Thanksgiving is not celebrated, for a US$60 million global opening weekend and a worldwide gross by EOD Sunday 75 million dollars.

The film is directed by Frozen Franchise helmer Chris Buck, and Vaughn Vierasunthorn, follow a young girl named Asha (voiced by… West Side Story Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose’s wish for a star gets a more direct answer than she bargained for when a troublemaking star descends from the sky to join her. The film is inspired by Disney’s centennial and focuses on the studio’s theme of wish granting. Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice wrote the songs, and Disney arranger Dave Metzger recorded the score.

Mexico will kick things off on Thursday in a rare twist. Since France will not last until next week, there will be no opening of the offshore market on Wednesday. The UK, Spain and less reliable Hollywood market China – which is expected to take $5 million for the film’s overseas launch – join on Friday. We expect the summit he wishes The openers in this early overseas window will be a mix of the UK, Mexico and China.

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If all goes well, it could be the top domestic Friday and Sunday for a post-pandemic original animated film with $35 million, surpassing Disney/Pixar’s $29.6 million opening. racist. US/Canada pre-sale for he wishes They are running 60% before racist. he wishes It is booked in 3,700 theaters with previews in the US starting at 3pm on Tuesday. Disney will have some PLF displays in operation he wishes.

Businesses here at the local BO were down last weekend Trolls band together ($30.6 million opening), from Universal/DreamWorks Animation, plus Disney’s original animated musical Encantowhich challenged 2021’s Thanksgiving with $40.5 million for 5 days and $27.2 million for 3 days.

Except China, new IP racist (which opened on the holidays) debuted with $21.6 million in likes at current exchange rates. Likewise, 2016 Moana It did $22.4 million and Encanto $14 million in their similar brackets.

Next weekend, France and Germany will join, followed by Japan on December 15, Italy on December 21, Australia on December 26, and Korea and Brazil in early January.

Comments for he wishes It has a score of 52% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Lionsgate’s second weekend comes in at No. 2 at home BO across the five days The Hunger Games: Song of Songbirds and Snakes About 30 million dollars. Its opening weekend fell short of $50 million opening expectations at $44.6 million. The global debut was $100.8 million. The $30 million domestic five-day film will be down 33% from the opening weekend of the Francis Lawrence-directed prequel, which falls around the 2015 Thanksgiving period. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Compared to opening weekend (-26% with $75.9M 5-day compared to $102.6M 3-Day). RT audience reached 91% Songbirds and snakes Against a critics score of 63% fresh.

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As we told you on Friday, Ridley Scott’s Apple Studios production Napoleon Via Sony you see a $46 million For the first time globally, this broke 22 million dollars 5 local days, and 24 million dollars overseas. Historical war photos had proven to be money just before the pandemic hit, that is 1917, And then, Oppenheimer. Ninety-six reviews of joaquin phoenix’s heroism Napoleon Up to 68% fresh. The film is in theaters for 45 days. Napoleon And Songbirds and snakes We will share EMAX.

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Trolls band together Looking to take 5 days out 20 million dollars. The Walt Dohrn-directed trilogy earned a CinemaScore, which was the same as a first grade Trolls Back in 2016.

Amazon/MGM Saltburn After averaging a $46K opening and $322K 3-day theatrical average, it’s expanding this week.

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