More ‘Moana’ Moola! Sequel Crests $1B Worldwide; 3rd Disney Release Of 2024 To Milestone As Studio Now Counts 32 Billion-Dollar Global Grossers

Nancy Tartaglione

19 January 2025 at 11:46 am·2-min read

Refresh for latest…: With this weekend’s business, Disney’s Moana 2 has topped $1B in global box office, becoming the third release of 2024 to reach the mark. This new milestone means Disney scored a hat trick of $1B worldwide grossers from 2024; the only studio with movies released during the year that crossed the coveted threshold.

In total, 56 movies have ever crossed $1B worldwide. Moana 2 is the 32nd from Disney (including three from the Fox acquisition) as well as being the 4th from Walt Disney Animation Studios (along with Frozen 2, Frozen and Zootopia).

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Breaking out Moana 2 details, the Dwayne Johnson/Auli’i Cravalho-starrer now counts $442.8M domestic through Sunday and $567.1M from the international box office for a running total of $1.01B worldwide. The current weekend hooked $7.9M from 52 overseas markets; a 32% drop in the eighth frame.

Moana 2 — from directors David G. Derrick Jr, Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller — began rollout in late November, notching the highest-ever reported animated opening weekend at the global box office. It set myriad other records at the time of release and continued riding a wave throughout the holidays.

It also helped Disney become the only studio of 2024 to top $5B in worldwide box office, the first time that any studio has surpassed the five-century mark since 2019.

Moana 2 is the 2^nd highest grossing animated release of all time in Brazil and France, and the highest grossing Walt Disney Animated Studios release ever in France, Australia, Brazil and Mexico as well as across the Latin American region, Greece, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey, UAE, New Zealand, Peru, Chile, Central America, Ecuador, Bolivia and Uruguay.

The Top 5 international markets to date are: France ($61.2M), UK ($50.5M), Germany ($43.1M), Australia ($30.9M) and Japan ($30.7M)

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