Can We Get A Chee Who? ‘Moana 2’ Easily Hooking Best Thanksgiving Opening At $170M+, More Records To Be Broken; ‘Wicked’ $92M, ‘Gladiator II’ $39M+ – Box Office

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The worst thing a studio can do on a massive weekend like this is over-project. And if there’s one thing about Thanksgiving forecasts, they always get over-projected.

Right now, Disney’s Moana 2 is putting up an estimated $54M first day, inclusive of yesterday’s Walt Disney Animation preview record of $13.8M.

This will coast the Dwayne Johnson-Auli’i Cravalho sequel to at least $170M+ at 4,200 theaters, easily a Thanksgiving 5-day record both for an opening, unseating Disney’s own Frozen ($93.9M), as well as a movie with the biggest haul over the holiday stretch, the former being Frozen 2 ($125M).

The 3-day for Moana 2 is somewhere between $90M-$100M+. Let’s just keep a tab on this: Best opening for Johnson of all-time at the domestic box office is Furious 7 at $147.1M.