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00:02Disney's live-action Moana opened with an estimated $95 million worldwide,
00:08including $43 million domestically, according to The Wall Street Journal.
00:13The box office sales mark, one of the weakest debuts among the studio's animated remakes.
00:18The film cost roughly $250 million to produce and nearly matched last year's Snow White opening.
00:25Critics reviewed the movie negatively, while opening night audiences gave it an A cinema score.
00:30The original animated film earned $643.3 million, while its 2024 sequel topped $1 billion.
00:38The remake arrived 10 years after the original and less than two years after the sequel,
00:43raising questions about whether audiences had enough time to develop nostalgia.
00:48The week opening follows recent underperformance from several major studio releases
00:52during an otherwise strong year for Hollywood.
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