--- title: Disney's 'Moana' Shoots to the Top of the Weekend Box Office description: Disney's 'Moana' shoots to the top of the U.S. box office beating out 'Fantastic Beasts' and 'Doctor Strange.' canonical: https://time.com/4582998/moana-box-office-disney/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-28T02:38:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:59:54.951Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Disney's 'Moana' Tops the Weekend Box Office og:description: 'Moana' made an estimated $81.1 million during the five-day holiday tally og:url: https://time.com/4582998/moana-box-office-disney/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33a40ce51710dc47/6988acbd524fc0e045dfa180/moana-maui-disney.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: moana-maui-disney og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Disney's 'Moana' Tops the Weekend Box Office twitter:description: 'Moana' made an estimated $81.1 million during the five-day holiday tally twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33a40ce51710dc47/6988acbd524fc0e045dfa180/moana-maui-disney.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Disney's _Moana_ Shoots to the Top of the Weekend Box Office > Sponsored content. 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Along the way, she meets once-mighty demi-god Maui (right)Disney by [Joey Nolfi / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Joey Nolfi / Entertainment Weekly Nov 28, 2016 2:38 AM UTC Disney’s _Moana_ is riding the waves of financial success. After helping the domestic box office push past the [$10 billion mark](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/26/moana-fantastic-beasts-domestic-box-office-10-billion-record-time) in record time on Friday, _Moana_ crosses the weekend finish line with an estimated $55.5 million three-day haul, bringing its five-day holiday tally to $81.1 million. Though it [posted a higher Wednesday opening](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/24/moana-box-office-predictions) than fellow Disney animation title _Frozen_, which also landed the day before Thanksgiving, _Moana_’s holiday gross falls around $13 million short of the Kristen Bell/Idina Menzel juggernaut’s $93.3 million take over the same frame in 2013\. The film attracted a 55 percent female audience base to its 3,875 theaters and earned a stellar A grade on CinemaScore. Disney now occupies the top six slots among five-day Thanksgiving debuts and the top eight for the three-day post-Thanksgiving weekend. Overseas, Moana earns $16.3 million from a handful of territories, including China, where it grossed $12.3 million for the weekend. Its global cumulative stands at an estimated $97.4 million. Finishing in second place is the Warner Bros. Harry Potter spinoff _Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them_, which adds an estimated $45.1 million to its domestic total ($65.8 million for the five-day stretch). Its worldwide total now stands at $473.7 million. At No. 3, Marvel Studios’ _Doctor Strange_ ropes in an additional $13.4 million, bringing its global total to an estimated $616 million — the ninth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to cross the $600 million mark. The Brad Pitt/Marion Cotillard vehicle Allied finishes its first weekend in wide release at No. 4, amassing a so-so $13 million for the three-day weekend, and an estimated $18 million for the five-day, attracting almost an even split between genders (51 percent male, 49 percent female) and scoring a B from polled audiences on CinemaScore. The $85 million picture also opened in 23 international markets (34 percent of its global footprint) this weekend, grabbing an estimated $9.4 million — 9 and 8 percent higher than comparable titles like The Imitation Game and Bridge of Spies, respectively. Amy Adams’ Arrival rounds out the top five, falling a mere 7.3 percent to an estimated $11.3 million after adding 107 theaters to its screen count on Friday. Outside the top five, Billy Bob Thornton’s Bad Santa 2 eats up an underwhelming $6.1 million across its debut three-day frame. Surprisingly, Warren Beatty’s long-awaited directorial comeback _Rules Don’t Apply_ registers one of the worst opening weekends for a wide release in recent memory, averaging a dismal $661 per theater at 2,382 locations for a three-day finish of $1.6 million ($2.2 million for the five-day period). Though the film’s reviews weren’t as strong as Beatty’s previous efforts in the director’s chair, the Hollywood legend earned a respectable amount of Oscar buzz for his performance as Howard Hughes, though its awards season prospects seem altogether dashed by the film’s disastrous performance at the box office. Fellow awards hopefuls _Lion_ and _Miss Sloane_ impress with their limited bows, however, averaging $32,092 and $21,000 per-theater on the specialty front, respectively. Increasing its theater count from four to 48, Casey Affleck’s likely Best Picture contender _Manchester By the Sea_ continues to overperform on the prestige circuit, making an additional $1.3 million this weekend, bringing its domestic total to just under $1.7 million. A24’s awards-bound _Moonlight_ also continues its box office run, approaching the $9 million mark as it piles an extra $1.3 million to its growing total. Year to date box office is up 4.5 percent from the same period in 2015\. Check out the Nov. 25-27 weekend box office estimates below. 1\. [_Moana_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/07/moana-ew-review) – $55.5 million ($81.1 million five-day) 2\. [_Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/12/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-ew-review) – $45.1 million ($65.8 million five-day) 3\. [_Doctor Strange_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/24/doctor-strange-ew-review) – $13.4 million ($18.9 million five-day) 4\. [_Allied_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/21/allied-ew-review) – $13 million ($18 million five-day) 5\. [_Arrival_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/10/arrival-ew-review) – $11.3 million ($15.6 million five-day) 6\. [_Trolls_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/03/trolls-ew-review) – $10.3 million ($14.3 million five-day) 7\. [_Almost Christmas_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/10/almost-christmas-ew-review) – $7.6 million ($9.5 million five-day) 8\. [_Bad Santa 2_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/21/bad-santa-2-ew-review) – $6.1 million ($9 million five-day) 9\. [_Hacksaw Ridge_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/03/hacksaw-ridge-ew-review) – $5.5 million ($7.7 million five-day) 10\. [_The Edge of Seventeen_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/17/edge-seventeen-ew-review) $2.7 million ($4.2 million five-day) _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/27/weekend-box-office-moana) _originally appeared on_ [_ew.com_](http://www.ew.com/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4582998/moana-box-office-disney/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4582998/moana-box-office-disney/"},"headline":"Disney's Moana Shoots to the Top of the Weekend Box Office","datePublished":"2016-11-28T02:38:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:59:54.951Z","description":"Moana made an estimated $81.1 million during the five-day holiday tally","url":"https://time.com/4582998/moana-box-office-disney/","keywords":["movies","Box-office","Disney","Brad Pitt","Marion Cotillard","fantastic beasts and where to find them"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33a40ce51710dc47/6988acbd524fc0e045dfa180/moana-maui-disney.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joey Nolfi / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33a40ce51710dc47/6988acbd524fc0e045dfa180/moana-maui-disney.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"moana-maui-disney","caption":"moana-maui-disney","creditText":"Disney","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4582998/moana-box-office-disney/","name":"Disney's Moana Shoots to the Top of the Weekend Box Office"}}]}] ```