Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs

[Ghost93]

Part two lacks either the fun pop of Loathing/Popular or Adele Dazeem power ballads of Wizard and I/Defying gravity.

There’s essentially only three non reprise songs and one is from the Wizard (no offense but that’s going to be from a mediocre singer), which isn’t great. “No good deed”, a bit of a dour power balad and “for good”, which is a good duet. Two new songs and more material allows them to properly flesh it out.

Being familiar with the cast recording (which I purchased about a decade ago), I think "No Good Deed," "As Long as You're Mine," and "For Good" are all in the top five songs. I personally never loved Popular. Like, it's fine, but I always prefer more dramatic songs to comedic ones. For that reason, Master of the House is one of my least favorite songs from Les Miserables, even though it's quite funny and a crowdpleaser.

 

[Disney Irish]

Here is the weekend preview

As mentioned by others Wicked didn't get the top end predictions of $120M+ but did bring in over $100M which is really good.

Moana 2 this week, prediction range has been updated again to $145-$175M for the 5 day weekend. This will be way over the $125M that Frozen 2 made just 5 years ago which was a record for the Thanksgiving 5-day. So if those numbers do come true Moana 2 will take over that record.