You know you have something special on your hands when it breaks the world wide web and a few box office records along the way. Helped along by an $18.5 million Wednesday night, Disney Animation’sWreck-It RalphsequelRalph Breaks the Internetis surfing its way toward $80 million+ over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. According toVariety, some studios are expecting the animated film to land in the $90-$100 million range, possibly hitting ctrl-alt-del onFrozen’s Thanksgiving weekend record of $93. 6 million.
The film—which seesJohn C. ReillyandSarah Silvermanreprising their voice-over roles of arcade character Ralph and his pint-sized speed-racing sidekick Vanellope—earned a positively glowing A+ Cinemascore; Collider’s own Matt Golberg notes the film “breaks free from being just a bunch of Internet gags and becomes something far more rewarding.” (Check out the full reviewhere.)
The only real competition Ralph faces comes, appropriately, from the hard-hittingCreed 2, directorSteven Caple Jr.’s sequel toRyan Coogler’sCreed. The boxing drama—which starsMichael B. Jordanas Adonis Creed, as in son of Apollo—took home a hefty $11.6 million Wednesday night and is tracking toward a $62 million Thanksgiving weekend, higher than expected. The key difference, of course, isCreed 2’s adult-skewing dourness and drama up against the all-ages, Disney princess-stuffed affair that isRalph Breaks the Internet. When the kids are off from school you want to take them to see cartoons breaking the internet, not Michael B. Jordan breaking a large Russian man’s face.
At the bottom of the Thanksgiving box office barrel lies fellow newcomerRobin Hood, aiming toward a $17 million opening on a $100 million-ish budget. Folks,the film is bad, but there is a chance, however small, that word of the fabulously un-medieval leather dusterBen Mendelsohnwears as the Sheriff of Nottingham might drive a few more people into theaters. Time will tell.
