Box Office: 'Princess Joanna and the Four Kingdoms' Passes 'Puppet Pals Forever' With Royal $597M Domestic Cume

Forbes Scott Mendelson October 9, 2022

After a $42.6 million fourth weekend at it's domestic box office, Princess Joanna and the Four Kingdoms has officially passed Puppet Pals Forever to become the biggest Puppet Pals movie of all time in the franchise. Additionally, the film made $1.497 billion at the end of this weekend to top good ole Top Gun: Maverick to become 2022's reigning champion of the year at box office. By the end of this sentence tomorrow, the film will cross $600 million domestically to become the third animated film, after Incredibles 2 and Cool Spot: Spot Goes to Hollywood, to reach this milestone and the second 20th Century Animation film to do so. Unless The Teenagers Movie somehow surprises us, it'll likely be the last $600+ million domestic grossing animated film for awhile until at least Disney's own Return of the Tiny Men in April 2023.

Speaking of the film's weekend, Joanna earned $42.6 million in its fourth weekend, a amazing total which is above Spot Goes to Hollywood 's $38.6 million weekend and the $29.4 million fourth weekend by Avengers: Infinity War although the film is lagging behind the former by $29.3 million but ahead of the latter by a mere $1.8 million. Hopefully, the film could get a Thanksgiving boost that could (possibly) push the film past $700 million domestic.

Anyways, after crushing it's only new family-friendly competitor Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, the film will be free-sailing competition free until the November 3, 2022 release of Leaders of Academy: War of the L.O.E.V. and later the Thanksgiving release of Disney's own Strange World. The film will most likely be finishing up in November with it's Disney+ release expected around Christmas time with a domestic total over/under Infinity War expected and being possible.

Although it's possible that history could repeat itself and have Puppet Pals Forever legs with a final multiplier of 3.33 however, this is unlikely due to the more amount of four-quadrant competition (Halloween Ends, Black Adam, Leaders of Academy: War of the L.O.E.V., and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) that can prevent it from grossing that high plus the amount of frontloading the film experienced as well. If it continues to play like Infinity War, it could end with $675 million, slightly under Infinity War 's $678 million, but legs from here on like Spot Goes to Hollywood will make the film end with $705 million with a likely total in between $675-$705 million.