Disney’s ‘Moana 2’ Charts a Course thru Multiple Box Office Records

With a five-day domestic debut of $221 million, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Moana 2 is sailing beyond box office records, including the biggest five-day opening of all time, the biggest Thanksgiving debut and Thanksgiving weekend (three- and five-day), the biggest Thanksgiving day, and the biggest Black Friday ever.

The film, which reunites Moana (voice of Auli‘i Cravalho) and Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson) three years later for an expansive new voyage, opened in most markets around the world with $165M internationally, bringing its global cume to date to $386M, the second biggest global debut of 2024.

“Moana 2 has far surpassed our high expectations this weekend and is a testament to the phenomenon that Moana has become,” said Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Alan Bergman. “We’re fortunate to have an incredibly talented and hard-working creative team at Disney Animation who brought this new adventure to life, alongside our wonderful stars Auli’i and Dwayne and great new music. This is a moment to celebrate, and we’re thankful to all the moviegoers and fans who’ve helped make this a record-breaking debut.”

Domestic records include:

• Biggest five-day opening of all-time (surpassing The Super Mario Bros. Movie, $204.6M)
• Biggest Thanksgiving weekend of all time by far ($221M five-day, $135.5M three-day, surpassing Frozen 2‘s $125M five-day and $94M three-day)
• Biggest Thanksgiving debut by far (more than doubling Frozen‘s $94M five-day and $67M three-day)
• Thanksgiving Day of $28M (nearly doubling Frozen 2’s $15M)
• Highest ever Black Friday at the box office with $54.5M (exceeding Frozen 2‘s $34.2M)
• Biggest Walt Disney Animation Studios debut of all time
• Disney now holds the top seven Thanksgiving debuts of all time and nine of the top 10

This is Disney’s third film this year to surpass $150M domestically in its opening weekend, alongside Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine ($211M) and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 ($155M), marking the three biggest openings of 2024.

Moana 2 is off to a strong start internationally as well, driven by No. 1 openings around the world.

• Highest animated opening weekend of all time in France
• Second highest animated weekend of all time in Italy and Brazil
• Highest WDAS opening weekend of all time across the Latin American region and in nearly 30 individual markets worldwide, including France, Italy, Australia, Brazil and Mexico

The CG-animated musical adventure is now open in all markets except Japan, Thailand and Hong Kong, releasing in all three in the coming week.