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I made a mistake - the review embargo doesn't drop until Tuesday at noon in the Eastern time zone (the early screenings start that night). https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/moana-2-reviews-are-shaking-disneys-confidence-in-sequel/ar-AA1ubutG

Yeah, this is an exceptional start for both movies, and even if Moana 2 is as big as a lot of people here expect/hope it will be it will probably have a positive knock-on effect for them, though Wicked would be the more obvious beneficiary. Also keep in mind that Moana 2 is a lot shorter than...

Yeah, I think the film will let the material breathe more. I was surprised by how smooth the pacing was in this first installment given its length; having never seen the live show, I was wondering how rushed some of the side material must have been in it (particularly the Animals plot thread). I...

Well, it has already been teased that Frozen III and IV are going to be two halves of one narrative, and they do have to stretch out what remaining titles they have that haven't been remade...

I think Mufasa can be a hit but not at the expense of Wicked; there's a whole month in between the two after all. I'd be more worried Moana 2 would get in the way of Mufasa being a bigger hit. Especially given that Disney clearly didn't think Mufasa could carry them through the holiday season on...

An interesting theory I've heard is that Dwayne Johnson is too booked up promoting Red One to do a lot of promo for this film, and who else could they send out on the talk show circuit? (I remember a common scapegoat for why Wish bombed was that the promo interviews with the cast, etc. didn't...

In general people who've listened to the song previews - the end credit version of "Beyond" has been officially released for instance - haven't been too impressed. Reading the "Beyond" lyrics I have to agree that they come off way too close to those of "Into the Unknown" for comfort, which also...

Right, the project isn't a Burbank studio one anyway, and Miranda was working on other projects including Mufasa - The Lion King so bringing him back even at the 11th hour (when they decided to retool it as a feature) probably wasn't in the cards. An interesting issue I've seen on social media...

You'd think they'd learned their lesson after Wish, especially given this is going to theaters partially to save face after that film!

My understanding is that the animation "engine" used for Paperman was insanely expensive in practice just for a short, which is why they've never used it again and certainly not for a feature-length project. I'm not sure why Disney would turn the Tiana series (if it's even still a thing, given...

I get why they still had to release the back-to-school and Christmas items this year, but selling an extremely expensive ($99.99) doll now? They weren't this generous to Treasure Planet or Strange World! Now that it's almost been a year, it's wild how this movie has been "memory-holed", as the...

Yeah, I think because there's three A-level titles opening in less than a week's time no one wants to predict a blowout for any single one of them and be proven wrong. Not to mention how very, very wrong the Thanksgiving predictions were last year; Wish was expected to be an easy first place for...

Venom - The Last Dance had to go up against both early Halloween celebrations and the first games of a big-deal World Series, as noted by the analysts. And it's getting clearer and clearer that the occasional Deadpool & Wolverine aside, that is to say movies that feature really really really...

Even a good Christmas break is up in the air -- Mufasa - The Lion King opens on the 20th of December, and since that's directly going up against another children's movie in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Disney's going to switch its marketing game over from Moana 2 to that after its second weekend at the...

At this point, I think the difference between Moana 2 breaking even and getting to $1 billion will lie in word-of-mouth and repeat business, especially if Wicked Part One goes over well with its target audience(s). In the runup to Wish, looking at its tie-in material and song previews, my...

I don't think there's much potential in this Prince Charming project. Disney itself already had the Enchanted films and the film of Into the Woods tackle this particular archetype, and with all the other parodies out there (not least the Shrek franchise, which is getting a fifth installment that...

The tie-in books are hitting the shelves (a month early but that's long since become standard for these films) and I checked out some of them. I won't share spoilers but I did get the sense that like Inside Out 2 (or going back way further Ghostbusters II) this is the kind of sequel that's just...

Again though, the December lineup is looking unusually barren for "big" wide-release studio titles this year. The next weekend that has anything large-scale on offer after Thanksgiving break is December 13th between Kraven the Hunter and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, both of...

I have a niece who was born a few years after the original Frozen who loves that movie, likes Disney Princess stuff in general, stuff like Descendants as well - and now she's interested in Wicked. Ironically, Disney knocking Wicked off so often over the past 10+ years appears to have primed the...

No lie, the Disney Princess aisle at the Target I visited still has a big chunk of it devoted to discounted Wish items and there are only a few Moana 2 items squeezed in thus far. I assume by Thanksgiving they'll have an endcap ready to go?