{"id":141175,"date":"2022-11-27T20:07:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T20:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wakanda-forever-rules-thanksgiving-box-office-strange-world-flops-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T20:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T20:07:04","slug":"wakanda-forever-rules-thanksgiving-box-office-strange-world-flops-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wakanda-forever-rules-thanksgiving-box-office-strange-world-flops-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakanda Forever Rules Thanksgiving Box Office, Strange World Flops \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tIn a troubled start for the year-end holiday season, the feast at the 2022 Thanksgiving box office was among the most paltry in years as a varied menu of new movies largely failed to entice mainstream moviegoers.<\/p>\n

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\tThe big exception was Marvel Studios and Disney’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever<\/em>, which stayed atop the five-day holiday box office chart \u2014 Wednesday-Sunday \u2014 with a hearty domestic gross of $64 million from 4,258 theaters for a domestic total of $367.7 million through Sunday. Overseas, it grossed another $32.1 million over the weekend proper to clear the $300 million mark internationally and finish Sunday with $675.6 million.<\/p>\n

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\tConversely, Disney Animation’s Strange World<\/em> bombed with a five-day opening of $18.6 million after receiving a mediocre B CinemaScore. That’s the worst opening for a Disney Animation Thanksgiving title in modern times after getting pummeled by poor word-of-mouth, and the first of the studio’s to earn anything less than an A- grade from CinemaScore. Overseas, it debuted over the weekend to $9 million from 43 material markets for a global bow of just $28 million.<\/p>\n

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\tDisney Animation titles have become a Thanksgiving staple. last year, Encanto<\/em> posted a five-day gross of $40.6 million last year despite challenges posed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. And in 2019, Frozen 2<\/em> grossed a record $125 million over the five-day Thanksgiving corridor. <\/p>\n

\n\tStrange World<\/em> opens just days after Bob Iger’s return as CEO of the Walt Disney Co. amid the shocking ouster of Bob Chapek, whose decision to send Pixar movies straight to Disney+ during the pandemic was for confusing family audiences and training them to stay home and watch animated films on streaming.<\/p>\n

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\tDisney certainly knew Strange World<\/em> \u2014 about a family of adventurers who set out to save their world from power source \u2014 was in trouble heading into the holiday based on muted tracking. Still, there were hopes it could clear at least $25 million or $30 million. Overseas, the movie was banned in a number of Middle Eastern countries after the studio declined to censor scenes of the gay teenage son’s crush on another boy.<\/p>\n

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\tElsewhere on the Thanksgiving menu, Netflix isn’t reporting grosses for Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery<\/em>, meaning it won’t be included on any official box-office charts. Nor will its revenue be included in overall ticket sales. Distribution executives, however, still have their way of collecting data directly from exhibition contacts. Several rival studio sources tell The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> they believe Glass Onion<\/em> earned $12.7 million to $13 million from 698 North American theaters, the best five-day Thanksgiving number of any adult-skewing film.<\/p>\n

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\twithout Glass Onion<\/em> grosses, revenue for the five-day Thanksgiving corridor was down 53 percent or more from Thanksgiving 2019 and \u2014 more troubling \u2014 down 12 percent from last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic was far more of an issue.<\/p>\n

\n\tGlass Onion’<\/em>s theatrical run is being billed as a one-week sneak preview, and is the first of the streamer’s titles to play in all three of the country’s largest chains \u2014 AMC Theaters, Regal Cinemas and Cinemark Theaters. While the sequel opened to far less than the $41.4 million grossed by Johnson’s Knives Out<\/em> over Thanksgiving 2019 \u2014 the first movie had the advantage of receiving a traditional theatrical release from Lionsgate in more than 3,800 locations \u2014 it likely took a bite out of rival adult-skewing movies devotion<\/em> and Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\tSony and Black Label Media’s Korean War drama devotion<\/em> posted an estimated five-day holiday opening of $9 million from 3,405 cinemas after earning an A- CinemaScore. The well-reviewed movie, about two naval fighter pilots, stars Top Gun: Maverick’<\/em>s Glen Powell and Jonathan Majors. <\/p>\n

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\tIn its second week of play, Searchlight’s epicurean horror-comedy grossed an estimated $7.4 million from 3,228 locations for the five days for a domestic tally of $18.7 million (the pic is doing solid business for a specialty title). Overseas, it took in $4.1 million from 41 markets for a global tally of $12.7 million.<\/p>\n

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\tLuca Guadagnino’s awards contender Bones and All<\/em> \u2014 about two young lovers who are cannibals \u2014 expanded Wednesday into a total of 2,727 cinemas after launching in select theaters the previous weekend. The specialty pic earned a muted $3.6 million for the five days. Taylor Russell and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet star in the twisted road-trip movie, which did succeed in luring younger consumers.<\/p>\n

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\tThe jury is out on Steven Spielberg’s top awards contender The Fabelmans<\/em>which is rolling out more slowly in hopes of emulating the success of Oscar-winning film GreenBook<\/em>. (Both films are from Universal.) Spielberg’s latest film opened in New York and Los Angeles over the Nov. 11-13 weekend before expanding into 637 locations on Nov. 23. <\/p>\n

\n\tFabelmans<\/em> posted a disappointing, five-day Thanksgiving gross of $3.1 million for an early domestic total of $3.4 million. both devotion<\/em> and Fabelmans<\/em>, produced by Amblin, need older adults, who have been the most reluctant to return to theaters. Older adults also don’t rush out on opening weekend. Fabelmans<\/em> will become available on premium VOD on Dec. 13.<\/p>\n

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\tAt the international box office, Sony’s British movie Matilda the Musical <\/em>made headlines in opening to a rousing $5 million in the UK to command 50 percent of the marketplace. The film is based on Roald Dahl’s classic tale. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n