Disney’s Latest Movie, ‘Wish,’ Flops Over Thanksgiving Weekend

One other miss from Disney on the field workplace — the studio’s newest authentic animated film bombed with moviegoers over the vacation break … marking simply the newest flop for ’em.

In fact, we’re speaking about “Wish” … with Ariana DeBose as the primary character and Chris Pine as the large dangerous and a bunch of different cute facet characters. Sadly, none of them have been sufficient … ‘trigger “Wish” solely made $31.7 million via the 5-day “weekend.”

Ticket gross sales have been getting counted as early as Wednesday, however come Sunday … “Wish” had underperformed by lots. Projections had it pegged at $45-$50 mil over the identical 5 days.

It did not do nice internationally both, pulling in simply $17.3M abroad … bringing its whole worldwide haul to about $49 million. In layman’s phrases, the movie flopped — and it ended up coming in third place behind ‘Napoleon’ (#2) and the ‘Starvation Video games’ prequel (#1, once more).

This isn’t excellent news for the Mouse Home … which normally dominates the Thanksgiving window. Up till final yr — when their different authentic animated function “Strange World” carried out abysmally — Disney had put out hits round this time of the yr … together with “Encanto,” “Coco” and others, all of which made a crap ton of cash proper out the gate.

What’s unusual is that “Wish” truly bought good evaluations and nice viewers reception … so it is unclear what precisely the issue was. It is attainable the SAG strike hindered promotion of this film … however it additionally ended nicely earlier than its launch date, so it’s kind of of a thriller.