With a Thanksgiving Day gross of $14.718 million, Frozen II has passed Tangled’s $200 million domestic total and should pass $600 million worldwide today.
Frozen II continued to set fire to the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, in a good way, with a scorching $14.718 million (-39% from Wednesday) on Thursday. That’s just below the $14.95 million gross of Hunger Games: Catching Fire (sans inflation and without 3-D) on Thanksgiving day of 2013, just missing a new record for the holiday. Ironically, Catching Fire’s primary competition on its second weekend was the wide release debut of Frozen, which earned $67 million over the Fri-Sun portion of its $93 million Wed-Sun debut. That’s still the biggest opening for a Thanksgiving release. And now, barring a (severely unlikely) downtown over the weekend, Frozen II will easily surpass Catching Fire’s $73 million Fri-Sun/$109 million Wed-Sun second-weekend gross to snag the biggest Thanksgiving weekend ever, opening or otherwise.
The Anna/Elsa sequel has now earned $202 million in its first week in theaters. Presuming it maintained that 36.3/63.7 domestic/overseas split from Sunday (after it opened with $130 million domestic and $228 million overseas), it should have around $556 million worldwide as it cruises past $600 million sometime today. So, yeah, for what it’s worth, it’s already Walt Disney Animation’s biggest-grossing theatrical sequel, ahead of Ralph Breaks the Internet ($529 million in 2018) and, uh, The Jungle Book 2 ($186 million in 2003), Peter Pan 2: Return to Neverland ($115 million in 2002), Fantasia 2000 ($90 million in 2000/2001) and Rescuers Down Under ($27 million). Unlike Pixar, Illumination or DreamWorks, Walt Disney Animation almost never makes theatrical sequels to their theatrical toons.
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