"Disney’s “Moana 2” sailed to a blockbuster holiday opening in theaters, leading the box office to its strongest-ever Thanksgiving stretch.

Moana 2 earned $221 million in domestic ticket sales between Wednesday and Sunday, the strongest five-day domestic Thanksgiving opening of all time. The solid debut for the animated feature, in which a Polynesian teenager goes on a quest to find an ancient lost island, is nearly double the $125 million previous record set by “Frozen II” over the same period in 2019, according to box-office tracker Comscore.

Strong sales for “Moana 2” as well as the continued success of Universal’s hit movie musical “Wicked” and Paramount’s action film “Gladiator II,” collectively led to a record-setting Thanksgiving weekend. Overall, theaters in the U.S. and Canada sold $420 million in movie tickets over the five-day period, the best-ever Thanksgiving haul, topping $315 million in ticket sales during the same period in 2018, Comscore said."

wsj.com - Moana lifts box office to thanksgiving record with million haul

DIS continues to rise.

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