1 week Ago By Justin Carter
The original Moana was considered a pretty good movie back in 2016, and Disney being Disney, you can get why it decided to expand it into a franchise with a sequel and live-action remake . But if you thought it was just a standard good Disney movie with a lot of merch and cameos in other movies, you’d be a little bit wrong. Turns out, it’s actually been doing amazingly well on streaming for a long time, and it’s got the metrics to prove it.
A recent Bloomberg report reveals that since it launched alongside Disney+ in November 2019, and with an extra boost thanks to the early days of the pandemic, Moana’s ended up as Disney’s most-streamed movie of all time. Numbers-wise, audiences have watched 80 billion minutes worth of it, which equates to watching it 748 million times. Further Nielsen data shows it’s also been one of the four most-watched films on any streaming service on a yearly basis for the past half-decade, and for 2024 specifically, it’s been somewhere in the streaming Top 10 every month thus far.
Add on the $687.2 million box office during its theatrical run, and it’s safe to say a lot of people looooooove this movie. What this means for Moana 2 is that it’s likely going to have a massive theatrical run in a few weeks.
Box office analysts believe it’ll open to $135 million in North America during the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, further spurred by Fandango reporting it has the biggest first-day ticket presales of any animated film in 2024, the $1.697 billion-hit Inside Out 2 included. AMC CEO Adam Aron further stoked those flames during a recent investor call when he mentioned hearing scuttlebutt that it’ll “eclipse and outshine even the success of Inside Out 2 .
” Some of Disney’s biggest animated movies hit during Thanksgiving weekend, Moana included. Even with other big movies hitting this season like Wicked and Gladiator II , it’s likely Moana 2’s going to make waves when hits theaters on November 27..
