Box Office 'Moana' Scores Huge $81M Thanksgiving Win; 'Rules Don't Apply' Bombs With $2 2M

Box Office 'Moana' Scores Huge $81M Thanksgiving Win; 'Rules Don't Apply' Bombs With $2 2M Film industry: "Moana" Scores Huge $81M Thanksgiving Win; 'Rules Don't Apply' Bombs With $2.2M Brad Pitt-starrer "Associated" and Billy Bob Thornton's 'Awful Santa 2' additionally opened over the long Thanksgiving occasion casing to blended returns. The 2016 Thanksgiving occasion film industry casing was a story of one extreme or another. In another gigantic win for enlivened movies — and Disney — Moana scored one of the best five-day Thanksgiving showings ever with $81.1 million from 3,875 theaters, enough to overcome extra Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which put No. 2 in its second excursion with $65.8 million from 4,144 theaters for a local aggregate of $156.2 million. Abroad, Fantastic Beasts finished the graph with a satisfying $132 million for a $317.5 million cume and worldwide pull of $473.7 million. Moana is taking off gradually abroad, where it took in $16.3 million throughout the end of the week from its first modest bunch of regions, incorporating $12.3 million in China, where it was trounced by Fantastic Beasts' $41.1 million begin. On the off chance that the $81.1 million residential gauge holds, Moana will brag the No. 2 Thanksgiving dispatch ever behind kindred Disney title Frozen ($93.6 million), not representing expansion. (At present, Toy Story 2 is No. 2 with $80.1 million). Among all movies, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire remains the five-day Thanksgiving record holder with $109.9 million. Moana has everything taking the plunge: sparkling audits; an A CinemaScore; Dwayne Johnson, who voices a demigod enrolled by a furious youthful Polynesian princess; and Hamilton maker Lin-Manuel Miranda, who composed the music with Opetaia Foa'i and Mark Mancina. Newcomer Auli'i Cravalho voices the title character. Disney scored a moment triumph over Thanksgiving as Doctor Strange crossed $616 million all around, including a third-put complete locally with a five-day gross of $18.9 million. At the flip side of the range, Warren Beatty's Rules Don't Apply besieged with a five-day gross of $2.2 million from 2,382 theaters, one of the most noticeably awful begins ever for a title going out in more than 2,000 theaters. New Regency supported the $27 million film, which is circulated by Fox. Another significant Hollywood studio discharge flopping wretchedly is Sony/TriStar and Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which fell 79 percent in its second end of the week to $192,000 for a residential aggregate of $1.6 million.