Frozen and More Frozen

A shocker.

Frozen 2, after massive marketing, social networking, and stratospheric global anticipation, comes in at #1. Who would have thought? ...

Three Days of Grosses

1) Frozen 2 -- 4,440 -- $130M -- $130M (1st weekend)

2) Ford V Ferrari -- 3,528 -- $16M (-50%) -- $57.9M

3) Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood -- 3,325 -- $13.5M -- $13.5M (1st weekend)

4) 21 Bridges -- 2,665 -- $9.3M -- $9.3M (1st weekend)

5) Midway -- 2,627 (-615) -- $4.7M (-45%) -- $43.1M

6) Playing With Fire -- 2,760 (-425) -- $4.6M (-45%) -- $31.6M

7) Good Liar -- 2,454 (+15) -- $3.37M (-40%) -- $11.8M

8) Charlie’s Angels -- 3,452 -- $3.175M (-62%) -- $13.9M

9) Last Christmas -- 2,411 (-1,043) -- $3M (-53%) -- $27.8M

10) Joker -- 1,410 (-927) -- $2.8M (-47%) -- $326.9M

Frozen 2 has earned $223.2M in its overseas debut and $353M globally. Meantime, Universal/Dreamworks Animation's Abominable has now collected a worldwide gross of $174.1M.

The trade press and others are nattering on about the "record breaking" opening of this Disney cartoon sequel, but it's only record-breaking -- as some note -- for the month of November. "Lion King 2019" opened with $191,770,759 (U.S. and Canada) in July. So that's the actual record-breaker. Of course, there's the ongoing fiction that "Lion King" isn't animated because the House of Mouse says it isn't, but we can ignore fiction, can't we?