Disney’s Moana 2 has beaten a significant record thanks to its advance ticket sales. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie has sold more tickets than any animated film that dropped this year, including Inside Out 2. Moana 2 is already in the position to become the fourth-best showing of the year. Deadpool & Wolverine, Wicked and Dune: Part 2, on the other hand, are ahead of the forthcoming flick.
Moana 2 was initially planned to be a Disney series. Yet after seeing the stunning animation and graphics, Disney opted to release it as a full-length theatrical film instead. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Disney’s Chief of Animation, Jennifer Lee, discussed the teams’ earlier discussions to turn Moana 2 into a streaming series despite the film already being in production.
“We constantly screen [our projects], even in drawing [phase] with sketches,” Lee stated. “It was getting bigger and bigger and more epic, and we really wanted to see it on the big screen. It creatively evolved, and it felt like an organic thing.”
After the first-ever trailer for Moana 2 dropped, 178 million people tuned in and earned Disney its highest view for trailers in the company’s future.
“Walt Disney Animation Studios’ epic animated musical Moana 2 takes audiences on an expansive new voyage with Moana, Maui, and a brand-new crew of unlikely seafarers,” the official logline reads.
In Moana 2, Moana travels into the dangerous, long-lost waters of Oceania after receiving an abrupt call from her ancestors.
Moana stars Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson, who will reprise their roles as Moana and Maui in the second installment. The first film, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, amassed over $600 million at the box office and earned two Oscar nominations, including Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.
