{"id":139595,"date":"2022-11-26T04:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T04:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/box-office-strange-world-eyes-rocky-start-wakanda-forever-rules\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T04:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T04:49:07","slug":"box-office-strange-world-eyes-rocky-start-wakanda-forever-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/box-office-strange-world-eyes-rocky-start-wakanda-forever-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Strange World’ Eyes Rocky Start, ‘Wakanda Forever’ Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tDisney’s \u201cStrange World,\u201d an animated adventure about a family of explorers, is settling for box office scraps.<\/p>\n

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\tAfter a rocky $4.2 million opening day on Wednesday, the film collected $2.4 million from 4,174 North American theaters on Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday. With its two-day total at $6.7 million, weekend estimates for \u201cStrange World\u201d have been revised slightly. Now, the movie is expected to end the five-day frame with roughly $26 million, which is still a dismal result given its $180 million production budget. Heading into the Turkey Day weekend, the kid-friendly fable was estimated to earn $30 million to $40 million in its debut. But those projections were revised down, in part because the film landed a weak \u201cB\u201d CinemaScore and failed to generate buzz among family crowds. <\/p>\n

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\tTo compare, Disney’s musical fantasy \u201cEncanto\u201d collected $40.3 million over the extended holiday frame in 2021. And box office watchers were kinder when it came to assessing those ticket sales because, at the time, young kids were still getting vaccinated for the first time . This year’s turnout is a bleak reminder that movie theaters have yet to fully recover from COVID closures. Prior to the pandemic, the family-centric holiday was considered a sure-fire time to open an animated movie; Disney’s Thanksgiving releases \u2014 like 2019’s \u201cFrozen II\u201d ($123.7 million to start), 2018’s \u201cRalph Breaks the Internet\u201d ($84.6 million to start) and 2017’s \u201cCoco\u201d ($71 million to start) \u2014 significantly enjoyed bigger opening weekends and played long into December. But families have remained extremely selective about big-screen offerings in pandemic times. Only Universal’s \u201cMinions: The Rise of Gru,\u201d which generated $937 million globally, has truly impressed at the box office. <\/p>\n

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\tIn fairness to \u201cStrange World,\u201d it’s not like other new releases managed to entice audiences, either. Sony’s aerial war drama \u201cDevotion,\u201d Steven Spielberg’s coming-of-age story \u201cThe Fabelmans\u201d and director Luca Guadagnino’s cannibal romance \u201cBones and All\u201d each stumbled as they expanded nationwide.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cDevotion,\u201d an inspirational drama starring Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell, is expected to land the best start among newcomers. It grossed roughly $1.2 million on Thursday and looks to finish the five-day holiday period with a lackluster $8.5 million.<\/p>\n

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\tThose ticket sales are practically blockbuster results compared to \u201cThe Fabelmans\u201d and \u201cBones and All,\u201d which hardly sold any tickets on Turkey Day. \u201cThe Fabelmans\u201d took seventh place with $480,000 from 638 theaters, while \u201cBones and All\u201d fell slightly behind with roughly $430,000 from 2,727 locations. \u201cThe Fabelmans\u201d hopes to end the extended frame with a dismal $3 million. And \u201cBones and All\u201d looks to finish the five-day stretch with $3.5 million, an even bleaker total since it’s playing on four time as many screens as Spielberg’s latest.<\/p>\n

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\tWithout much in the way of competition, Disney and Marvel’s \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d soared with $8.1 million on Thursday. The superhero sequel is supposed to bring in $60 million to $63 million over the five-day period, a solid result for a movie that opened three weeks ago. So far, \u201cWakanda Forever\u201d has generated a sizeable $321 million in North America. On Friday, it passed $600 million globally.<\/p>\n

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\tAlso in theaters this weekend is \u201cGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,\u201d the follow-up to Rian Johnson’s hit 2019 whodunit. However, Netflix isn’t reporting grosses for the movie, which is playing in 600 North American cinemas.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n