Moana 2 Beats Despicable Me 4 for Third Highest-Grossing Movie of 2024 (& It is Near One other Field Workplace Milestone)

In 2016, Moana questioned how far she’d go. That 12 months, it wasn’t actually that far as she traveled to Te Fiti and saved her island however, in 2024, the Polynesian Disney Princess ventured even additional in Moana 2 to seek out different islanders and achieved super success on the field workplace.

Moana 2 premiered throughout the Thanksgiving weekend and had a variety of competitors, as earlier entries included Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II and Depraved. Ultimately, the animated sequel to the 2016 hit surpassed each of them and, on her quest to interrupt the Nalo’s curse and discover the legendary island of Motofetu to reconnect the individuals of the ocean, she achieved a brand new feat. Per The Numbers, Moana 2 is formally the third highest-grossing movie of 2024, an enormous feat for Disney.

In over a month and a half since its premiere on Nov. 27, 2024, Moana 2 grossed $990.6 million worldwide. The sequel made $435.2 million domestically and $555.3 million on worldwide markets. It has additionally surpassed the earlier third-highest-grossing movie of 2024, Despicable Me 4, which has grossed $969.2 million.

The brand new transfer bodes nicely for Moana 2, which was initially imagined to proceed the story as a TV sequence. On the similar time, it is a main win for Disney. The Home of Mouse managed to attain not simply the primary two however the first three spots on the field workplace worldwide.

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The primary main success was one other animation, Inside Out 2, which returned to theaters after 9 years after the primary installment was launched in 2015. The movie grossed $1.698 billion worldwide. The second enormous hit was additionally owned by a Disney subsidiary, Marvel Studios, Deadpool & Wolverine, which grossed $1.338 billion worldwide.

A New Field Workplace is Inside Attain

Just lately, Moana 2 achieved one other field workplace feat and have become the Tenth-biggest home earner for an animated film, pushing one other Disney movie, Frozen, out of the highest 10. As each Gladiator II and Depraved are nonetheless in theaters, each titles have already set a digital launch date. Moana 2 continues to be hovering the field workplace seas in seek for the newest milestone, and a brand new one is simply inside attain.

Contemplating the movie has grossed $990.6 million to this point, with no digital launch date set, the movie is simply lower than $10 million away from reaching the $1 billion threshold. The animated sequel has reached this determine somewhat shortly, so, the brand new field workplace milestone is definitely achievable. That may imply Disney could have three movies that handed $1 billion in 2024, making a outstanding return as the highest studio of the 12 months. General, Disney headed into 2025 with an enormous haul: $5.46 billion. That’s till Moana 2‘s up to date numbers.

That is additionally helpful for the way forward for the franchise. Moana will obtain a live-action remake in 2026, with Dwayne Johnson reprising his position because the demigod Maui, Talking about the way forward for the animated franchise, one of many three co-directors of the sequel, Dana Ledoux Miller, shared with ScreenRant: “I believe that the truth that so many individuals have come out to see this film signifies that there’s a variety of love for Moana,” Miller stated. “In a 12 months and a half I’ve one other movie popping out, it is the live-action Moana, so there’s a variety of Moana like to go round. And who is aware of what else is subsequent.”

Moana 2 continues to be enjoying in theaters.

Supply: The Numbers, ScreenRant

Director

David G. Derrick Jr.
, Jason Hand
, Dana Ledoux Miller

Launch Date

November 27, 2024

Forged

Auli’i Cravalho
, Dwayne Johnson
, Alan Tudyk
, Rachel Home
, Temuera Morrison
, Nicole Scherzinger
, Hualālai Chung
, David Fane
, Rose Matafeo
, Awhimai Fraser
, Gerald Ramsey
, Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda

Studio(s)

Walt Disney Photos
, Walt Disney Animation Studios