{"id":141265,"date":"2022-11-27T22:34:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T22:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/this-was-the-worst-thanksgiving-weekend-in-box-office-history\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T22:34:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T22:34:01","slug":"this-was-the-worst-thanksgiving-weekend-in-box-office-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/this-was-the-worst-thanksgiving-weekend-in-box-office-history\/","title":{"rendered":"This Was the Worst Thanksgiving Weekend in Box-Office History."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, Disney’s animated “Strange World” is a bomb \u2014 but without Netflix’s “Glass Onion,” the weekend would have been even worse.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d is still number one and \u201cStrange World\u201d tanked, but here’s what’s important: The three-day Thanksgiving box office weekend came to $95 million. In 2o19, this weekend’s total was $181 million; in 2018, $216 million. For all of 2019, only four weekends fell short of $100 million.<\/p>\n

The last time a Thanksgiving weekend grossed under $100 million was\u2026 never? Nearly 30 years ago, Thanksgiving 1994 saw a three-day weekend of $94.5 million\u2026 when ticket prices averaged $4.08.<\/p>\n

James Cameron’s \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water\u201d (Disney) opens December 16 and (as we’ve said too often) it can’t come soon enough. But if we’ve learned one thing this year, an occasional massive hit will not salvage what continues to be a troubled theatrical marketplace.<\/p>\n

Dominant distributor Disney will take the crown by a narrower margin for 2022. The cause is helped by taking the two top slots at this holiday, normally a major achievement. But the asterisk accompanying this \u201ctriumph\u201d is huge.<\/p>\n