Monday, June 1, 2026

Box Office: Disney’s “Moana 2” Breaks Records with $57 Mil Opening Including Tuesday Previews

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The reviews aren’t great but it doesn’t matter.

Disney’s “Moana 2” is their biggest opening for one of their animated films. It’s also the fourth highest opening for an animated film from anyone.

Total last night plus Tuesday’s previews is a stunning $57 million.

Families obviously went in droves, many will go again. Is it good? Who cares? It’s the “Moana” brand and apparently it looks great even if the story isn’t too different from the 2016 original.

The whole run from Tuesday through this Sunday could hit the $175 milliom target.

But what about “Wicked” and “Gladiator II”? They’re doing fine, but nothing like “Moana 2.”

Meantime, “The Piano Lesson” is playing on Netflix and it’s must see for adults of discerning taste. It’s like a throwback to actual acting, writing, and directing. Michael Potts steals the show, just as he did on Broadway.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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