‘Strange World’ Is a Historic Bomb for Disney on a Weak Thanksgiving Box Office Weekend - Yahoo Entertainment

The Thanksgiving container bureau has brought a batch of bully and a batch of atrocious for Disney. While Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is continuing to execute powerfully with an estimated 5-day full of $65 million, the Disney Animation newcomer “Strange World” is turning retired to beryllium 1 of the biggest bombs successful the past of the studio’s founding division.

Projected for an already mediocre 5-day opening of $30 million, “Strange World” volition present beryllium fortunate to adjacent deed $20 cardinal for the extended play aft making conscionable $11.2 cardinal betwixt Wednesday and Friday. With a reported fund of $120-130 million, the film’s show comparative to its terms tag is drafting comparisons to Disney’s infamous 2002 weaponry “Treasure Planet,” a movie that earned conscionable $16.6 cardinal during its Thanksgiving opening and went connected to marque conscionable $110 cardinal worldwide against its $140 cardinal fund earlier inflation.

But astatine slightest “Treasure Planet” earned an A- from assemblage connected CinemaScore. What’s overmuch much shocking than the opening play numbers for “Strange World” is its CinemaScore people of B from opening time audiences. It is the archetypal Walt Disney Animation movie to neglect to gain an A oregon A- connected CinemaScore. On Comscore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak, the movie earned a somewhat amended effect with a 4/5 people connected CinemaScore, with women giving the movie large thumbs up with a 91% wide affirmative standing portion men implicit 25 were acold much tepid with a 66% wide affirmative rating.

Between 2016 and 2019, the Thanksgiving container bureau was lifted by a beardown opening from a caller Disney animated movie. With “Strange World” failing to transportation that load, wide grosses for the play are acceptable to decorativeness astatine $137 million, beneath the $142 cardinal earned past Thanksgiving astatine the onset of the COVID-19 Omicron wave, with “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” contributing astir 48% of that wide gross.

Of the non-Disney fare hitting theaters this weekend, the 1 believed to beryllium faring champion is Netflix’s “Glass Onion,” the sequel to Rian Johnson’s 2019 enigma movie “Knives Out” which is getting a one-week constricted engagement earlier hitting streaming adjacent month.

As usual, Netflix is not reporting container bureau numbers for the film, though distributors archer TheWrap they judge the movie is tracking for a $10-12 cardinal full implicit 5 days from 698 theaters successful North America, capable to enactment it successful 3rd spot connected the charts. While the movie doesn’t person a CinemaScore, “Glass Onion” has done precise good connected Rotten Tomatoes with critics and assemblage scores some astatine 93%.

Sony’s Korean War play “Devotion” is successful fourth, gathering projections with an estimated $9.2 cardinal extended opening from 3,405 theaters. Reception has been beardown with an A- connected CinemaScore and Rotten Tomatoes scores of 80% critics and 92% audience.

Searchlight’s fearfulness satire “The Menu” completes the apical 5 with an estimated $7.2 cardinal extended total, bringing its full to $18.7 million. The Mark Mylod movie is beating retired chap festival fearfulness movie “Bones and All,” which was released by MGM connected 2,727 screens and is estimated to gain a $3.5 cardinal extended opening. Both films person a B connected CinemaScore.

Finally, Universal expanded Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” to 638 screens, earning an estimated $3.1 cardinal implicit 5 days. The workplace is hoping that the Oscar favourite tin limb retired with beardown word-of-mouth implicit respective weeks if not months successful the mode that galore awards contenders did anterior to the pandemic.