‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ to Stuff Box Office Competition With $80 Million-Plus

Ralph Breaks the Internet” is set to stuff its Thanksgiving box office competition, with Disney estimating a domestic launch of $80 million-plus at 4,017 sites for the five-day period.Other projections come in between $90 million to $100 million, which would break the previous Thanksgiving record set by Disney’s “Frozen” at $93.6 million.The sequel is dwarfing “Wreck-It Ralph,” which opened with $49 million over three days in 2012 on its way to $189 million domestically and $471 million worldwide.MGM’s “Creed II” is also performing well, punching its way to around $62 million at 3,359 venues over five days, Wednesday’s estimates showed.

Both sequels are performing well above forecasts, with “Ralph Breaks the Internet” having been projected to earn between $67 million to $77 million over its first five days of release and “Creed” originally set to pull in north of $45 million.Lionsgate’s launch of “Robin Hood” is emerging with $17 million at 2,715 venues for the holiday period — a

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