Tangled, Disney’s new take on Rapunzel, has overtaken Harry Potter to make top place in the U.S. Weekend Box Office after a two week battle.
The musical animation, starring Mandy Moore, reached number one with $21.5 million, raising the domestic total to $96.5 million.
Meanwhile, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 1 fell back to second place with $16.7 million, earning more than $244 million domestically, according to MTV News.
A family movie, Tangled has also been successful overseas, grossing $45.8 million in 15 other countries. In the United States, predictions remain positive for its continued performing over the coming weeks.
“It’s not very often the second week of a movie that it ends up the No. 1 movie,” said Chuck Viane, head of distribution for Disney. “This will be one of those leggy movies that just keeps playing and playing.”
But, weekend business for US cinemas was poor, and it was Hollywood’s second worst weekend of the year with just $88 million in total receipts, according to Hollywood.com.
“It was a bad weekend,” said Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “It just shows that people got a lot of their movie-going out of the way over that five-day Thanksgiving weekend, and this weekend, they went, ‘Ahh, we’ve seen it.’”
The musical animation, starring Mandy Moore, reached number one with $21.5 million, raising the domestic total to $96.5 million.
Meanwhile, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 1 fell back to second place with $16.7 million, earning more than $244 million domestically, according to MTV News.
A family movie, Tangled has also been successful overseas, grossing $45.8 million in 15 other countries. In the United States, predictions remain positive for its continued performing over the coming weeks.
“It’s not very often the second week of a movie that it ends up the No. 1 movie,” said Chuck Viane, head of distribution for Disney. “This will be one of those leggy movies that just keeps playing and playing.”
But, weekend business for US cinemas was poor, and it was Hollywood’s second worst weekend of the year with just $88 million in total receipts, according to Hollywood.com.
“It was a bad weekend,” said Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “It just shows that people got a lot of their movie-going out of the way over that five-day Thanksgiving weekend, and this weekend, they went, ‘Ahh, we’ve seen it.’”
