It was a very good weekend for the Mouse House.
On the domestic front, Disney’s computer-animated adventure Raya and the Last Dragon repeated as the No.
1 movie in North America for the second straight week, pulling in $5.5 million in its sophomore frame.
Meanwhile, overseas, the studio re-released a film from the other major it acquired, 20th Century Fox, and its 2009 mega-blockbuster, Avatar.
That lured enough ticket buyers in China to help push it past Avengers: Endgame and reclaim its crown as the highest-grossing movie of all time.First, let’s take a look at Raya.
Although the big-budget film dipped -35.3% from the previous weekend, it easily snagged first place at the North American box office despite being available on the Disney+ streaming platform for a $30 fee.
Just a week after theaters in Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City re-opened—and just days after the all-important Los Angeles
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