Reportedly, Walt Disney Company (DIS) has regained its rightful place at the top of Thanksgiving box office charts with “Encanto,” its new animated musical fable, with $40 million in sales. Disney releases a family-friendly movie around Turkey Day, and “Encanto,” an animated movie with critical acclaim success serves as a promising sign that viewers are gaining confidence to bring their young kids back to the movies, during the pandemic.
However, the movie’s five-day total is considerably short of the studio’s recent Thanksgiving releases, such as “Frozen II” with $123.7 million in 2019, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” with $84.6 million in 2018, and in 2017, “Coco” with $71 million. but “Encanto” has managed the best opening weekend for an animated film during the pandemic. Moviegoers also feasted on MGM’s A-list crime drama “House of Gucci,” which generated $14.2 million over the traditional weekend and $21.8 million in its first five days of release.
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