For Disney, this year can be said to be a very successful year, because many Disney-produced movies this year, the box office has exceeded 1 billion, but since the release of "Maleficent 2", the box office of this Disney movie has In a state of "sleeping". From the current box office, the box office performance of Maleficent 2 is very average. This movie only made 36 million US dollars in revenue during its premiere weekend. Although many people have already expected such a result, there is still a big gap compared with the first one. It can be said that this movie It was very mediocre on the premiere weekend.
Before the release of Maleficent 2, according to forecasts, the box office for the first weekend of the film in the United States will reach 30-50 million US dollars. Of course, Disney hopes that this movie can achieve greater success in this range, but unfortunately, "Maleficent 2" happened to fall into the worse part. Although this movie has replaced "Joker" and became the North American box office champion after its release, it is only a little higher than the box office of "Joker". It is worth mentioning that the movie "Joker" has been in theaters for three weeks, but it still won a box office of $29 million.
The box office of Maleficent 2 is far worse than the first
In 2014, the first part of Maleficent earned $69 million at the North American premiere weekend, so the sequel's box office income can be said to be only half of that at the time. This is a rather significant drop, partly due to the fact that the first movie was released in May instead of October. After all, not every movie can be as influential as "Joker". For theaters, October has always been a very flat month, after all, summer is the hot season for movies.
Although the box office of "Maleficent 2" did not perform well in North America, the film's overseas box office was 118 million U.S. dollars during its premiere weekend, so the global box office gained 154 million U.S. dollars. Although the box office of the movie did not go as expected during its premiere weekend, it was not a bad start. However, compared with the first movie, this movie is indeed far behind. The first film of "Maleficent" has a global box office of about 750 million, but for now, "Maleficent 2" can't reach this number.
Why is the box office of Maleficent 2 not ideal?
Interestingly, although Maleficent has achieved very mediocre results at the box office, this will not affect Disney. As mentioned at the beginning of the article, the film company has already had five movies with global box office breaking the $1 billion mark. Before the end of this year, "Frozen 2" and "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" will also Released, and these two films are also very promising to break through the $1 billion mark. But for Disney, Maleficent 2 reduced their "golden" magic.
