Box Office: 'Princess Joanna and the Four Kingdoms' Nabs Record $39.3 Million Thursday

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20th Century Animation's Princess Joanna and the Four Kingdoms just broke its first box office record, earning a dynamite $39.30 million in Thursday night previews. That 's the best for an animated film, ahead of the $38m Thursday preview launch of 20th Century's own Cool Spot: Spot Goes to Hollywood from last December while Joanna also holds the record for the biggest Thursday preview launch for a film in September, more than double of the previous record of $17.2m by Puppet Pals Forever in 2018. Barring some unusual frontloading, especially for an animated movie, it is now almost certain that Pamela Porter's spin-off/prequel will cross $190m within it's opening weekend which is more or less near the high end projections of the film.

This film is almost certain to play like Cool Spot 2 more or less with slight frontloading we can expect a $182-190m opening weekend, which would be the biggest for the franchise as well. Overseas it already made over $80m which means a record breaking overseas gross is in play.

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