Jiffy

Don't care about Moana, but the $500m dream being over for Wicked would be a bummer. I was also wondering how it gets there with these weekend numbers.

Nothing like Post-Thanksgiving weekend to bring things back down to earth. Meh.

Tbh best case scenario may be Disney getting the idea that money was left on the table with this one even still.

Yah that is the number to look at. Wicked's hold is crazy, but TGM is on another level.

Hope Wicked managed an increase as well, but those demo numbers could have played to Moana's specific advantage for Sunday.

I'd also hope for (relative) success in Japan but not going to hold my breath with their recent track record.

Will it be $200m OS?

Yes that's what I found confusing. Alas.

Nah you are still comparing a film posting that hold coming off a holiday weekend (1st weekend) to one coming on to one (2nd weekend). Wicked is performing phenomenally in the US no need to set it up with long-term expectations it can't reasonably meet.

A2 in pre-Covid market condition here will probably be the ultimate white whale "what if?" box office story to torment us for the rest of time. Endgame gross in China sits there mocking me.

Did EC's talk of initial pre-sales pointing to $1B WW go up in smoke?

A bummer streaming probably precludes this level of market depth from ever recurring. Seems like we'll be reliant on these tentpoles to overperform for the foreseeable future, although hard to feel too bad about things atm.

I wonder if Moana can take Mario's non-opener Friday record with actuals ($54.5m vs. $54.8m).

That Avatar Christmas frame was truly bananas.

A big chunk of that was from Japan / Korea where musicals can break out.