Disney's Live-Action Moana Bombs at the Box Office With Opening Weekend That Barely Beats Snow White

Disney's live-action Moana movie washed up astatine the container bureau with an estimated planetary full of $95 cardinal connected its opening weekend.

It's a debut that puts the House of Mouse's latest remake conscionable hardly up of Snow White, which pulled conscionable $87.3 cardinal during its infamously underwhelming opening play successful 2025. In different words, things aren't looking bully for Moana.

The divided puts its home haul astatine an estimated $43 million, with an planetary propulsion sitting astatine $52 million. While that inactive positions the Moana remake successful archetypal for the mid-July weekend, it's astir surely not the numbers Disney was hoping to spot arsenic it continues pushing retired live-action adaptations for immoderate of its astir beloved stories.

Starring Catherine Laga'aia arsenic its titular princess and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, who erstwhile again plays Maui, the live-action Moana movie had immoderate high-end projections hoping its opening play would bring successful $60 cardinal to $65 cardinal domestically and arsenic overmuch arsenic $75 cardinal internationally. As that doesn't look to travel adjacent to panning out, Disney volition present look a achy world with an adjacent softer debut that stacks up against a reported fund of $250 cardinal (via Variety).

When Snow White failed to execute past year, it supposedly resulted successful the indefinite hold of the live-action Tangled movie. Although advancement connected that beforehand was stalled for immoderate time, it has since picked up steam with caller additions to the formed pursuing the occurrence of the live-action Lilo and Stitch movie.

For now, there's nary motion that Disney volition people close again arsenic Moana fails to impress. In the meantime, Variety has reported that Tangled is expected to premiere successful 2028. Other remakes successful improvement see live-action Bambi, Hercules, and Lilo and Stitch 2, arsenic good arsenic a task based connected Beauty and the Beast villain, Gaston.

In different container bureau news, Universal Pictures and Lionsgate's Michael Jackson biopic has passed $1 cardinal globally. It's an update that saw the movie scope an awesome milestone arsenic it became the archetypal biopic successful past to scope the mark. Toy Story 5, meanwhile, is coming up connected the aforesaid figure, present sitting astatine $879 cardinal aft its 4th play successful theaters.

The play besides brought yet different not-so-thrilling update for Supergirl, which present has a full haul of $115.4 million. That puts it inactive good retired of scope from the already disappointing $200 cardinal decorativeness immoderate were hoping for, suggesting important losses for Warner Bros. and its budding DCU.

As the live-action Moana movie attempts to find its oversea legs, you tin work IGN's 6/10 review. In it, we said, "Dwayne Johnson returns arsenic Maui other newcomer Catherine Laga'aia successful this frame-by-frame retelling of the Disney animated philharmonic that doesn't bash capable to warrant being made."

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).