The 2016 Thanksgiving holiday box office was a tale of feast or famine.
In another huge win for animated films — and Disney — Moana scored one of the best five-day Thanksgiving showings of all time with $81.1 million from 3,875 theaters, enough to conquer holdover Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which placed No. 2 with $65.8 million from 4,144 theaters for a domestic total of $156.2 million.
Overseas, Fantastic Beasts topped the chart with a pleasing $132 million for a foreign total of $317.5 million and global haul of $473.7 million. It trounced...
In another huge win for animated films — and Disney — Moana scored one of the best five-day Thanksgiving showings of all time with $81.1 million from 3,875 theaters, enough to conquer holdover Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which placed No. 2 with $65.8 million from 4,144 theaters for a domestic total of $156.2 million.
Overseas, Fantastic Beasts topped the chart with a pleasing $132 million for a foreign total of $317.5 million and global haul of $473.7 million. It trounced...
- 11/27/2016
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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