The Thanksgiving box office is being dominated by Disney’s sequelRalph Breaks the Internet. Indeed, the animated follow-up pulled in a gargantuan $10.3 million for Thanksgiving Day and is in line to gross a whopping $90 million to $94 million for the Wednesday through Sunday frame. If it hits $94 million, it’ll beatFrozen’s five-day Thanksgiving weekend box office record of $93.6 million.
Disney is no stranger to dominating Thanksgiving. Last year, Disney/Pixar’sCocopulled in $72.9 million, while the year before sawMoanatop out at $82.1 million. Ultimately those two films ended up with very different worldwide grosses—Cocofinished with $807 million whileMoanaclosed up shop with a total of $643 million—so it’ll be interesting to see how highRalph Breaks the Internetsoars in the longterm.
But theWreck-It Ralphsequel isn’t the only new film out this holiday, asCreed IIis also faring quite well. TheMichael B.Jordan-fronted boxing drama pulled in $8.9 million on Thanksgiving Day and is looking at a holiday weekend launch of at least $60 million. That would be the best Thanksgiving opening of all-time for a live-action title, topping the $49 million five-day total of Disney’sEnchantedin 2007.
If you haven’t noticed, Thanksgiving is usually dominated by family films, soCreed IIdoing so well here could kick off a new trend of counterprogramming more adult-oriented (but still family-centric) fare during the holiday. In contrast,Creedlaunched to $42 million for the five-day frame in 2015 and went on to gross $173.5 million worldwide.
Stay tuned this weekend for revised estimates as moviegoers continue to flock to theaters, and check out a chart of the best Thanksgiving Day opening weekends of all time below.
5-Day Opening Total
$93,590,387
$82,080,274
Toy Story 2
$80,102,784
$72,908,930
$68,706,298
The Good Dinosaur
$55,455,687
$49,060,281
Four Christmases
$46,054,468
Unbreakable
$46,010,629
A Bug’s Life
$45,739,516
