Poppy and Branch’s latest hyper-colored jukebox musical adventure Trolls Band Together (DreamWorks Animation/Universal Pictures) made an encore worthy debut at the domestic box office, hitting No. 2 with a take of $30.6 million across 3,870 theaters, ahead of the big Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The threequel has also raked in $76.3M from international markets for a worldwide cume of $108.1M.
The CG-animated family pic rocked and rolled into the charts behind YA franchise premiere The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes ($44M, Lions Gate) and ahead of comic-book actioner The Marvels ($10.2M, $65M since release; Disney/Marvel). Halloween holdover horrors Thanksgiving (+$10.2M, TriStar) and Five Nights at Freddy’s (+3.5M, Universal) rounded out the Top 5. The only other animated entry among the top 20 films is the younger-skewing PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (Paramount/Nickelodeon/Spin Master), which held on to No. 12 and added $85,000 to the pot (domestic: $65M, worldwide: $192.4M).
We will see if Anna Kendrick and Justin Bieber’s colorful couple will stay in the spotlight this weekend, as Disney’s centennial animated musical Wish opens on November 22. Despite some lukewarm critical reviews, Disneyphiles seem eager to check out the milestone movie for themselves.
Unsurprisingly, Trolls Band Together is tracking well ahead of the second installment, Trolls World Tour, which was forced into a simultaneous limited theatrical and VOD release as its launch was timed to COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions of early 2020, pulling together $49.3M in box office, over 99% from international markets. The original DreamWorks Trolls movie, which was released Nov. 4, 2016, also premiered at No. 2 with bit heftier $46.6M domestic opening, and went on to make $154M ($347.2M worldwide).
Trolls Band Together is currently screening in more than 50 markets across North America, MENA, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
[Source: Box Office Mojo]
