‘Moana 2’ To Swamp ‘Kraven The Hunter’ & ‘Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim’ At Weekend Box Office – Preview

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For all the blah blah that people don’t go to the movies before Christmas, and that moviegoing mushrooms from Christmas Day onward, two holdovers, Moana 2 and Wicked are expected to hold over quite well, with respectively $28M and $20M, -45% a piece, while two incoming fanboy movies fall apart: Sony Marvel’s $110M extended Spider-verse Kraven the Hunter and Warner Bros/New Line’s $30M feature animated movie Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim respectively with $15M+/- and $6M-$7M.

The single digit start for Lord of the Rings is in the vein of recent Sony Crunchy Roll films. Meanwhile, the $15M start for Kraven the Hunter is around where Sony Marvel’s Madame Web tanked back in February in its first three days.

Moana 2 is going into her third week while Wicked is playing into its fourth. All four movies, along with Paramount’s tenth anniversary re-release of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar are expected to share PLFs and Imax screens.

Though Kraven the Hunter is the first R-rated in the Spider-verse and Lord of the Rings is PG-13, both are aimed at men 18-34.