Disney’s ‘Wish’ Eyes $50M Debut, Apple & Sony’s ‘Napoleon’ To Gallop To $24M Over Thanksgiving 5-Day: Box Office Early Look
deadline.comLet the feast begin: Thanksgiving releases and awards season contenders, Disney‘s Wish and Apple Original Films and Sony‘s Napoleon are set to open over the Wednesday to Sunday holiday stretch with respective grosses of $50M+ and $24M+.
Both movies open on Thanksgiving eve, Nov. 22. Wish, if it hits its projection, would rep the biggest original animated opening in the past six years since 2017’s Coco which did $72.9M over five days; also a Thanksgiving Disney release.
Families and females are showing the best support at the moment. The song “This is the Thanks I Get” performed by Chris Pine dropped recently last week and has been spurring interest for the movie that stars Oscar winner Ariana DeBose.
Other notable Disney original animated pics that launched over the Turkey holiday include 2016’s Moana ($82M), 2010’s Tangled ($68.7M) and Encanto during the 2021 pandemic ($40.5M).
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