Interesting Box Office for MPR as it’s performing like a standard Christmas musical and not a sequel to a much loved movie.
I think some people (inc me) expected more from its first few days but think about the demo for this movie. It’ll skew older and there’s no “must see as soon possible” about the movie as we all know how the story will play out.
It’s probably so long since the original that it’s playing like a stand alone movie and not a sequel. I expect it to play well, a bit like normal Oscar nominated material/musicals so I’m still expecting 250m+ - just not quite as quickly as anticipated.