Despite Hurricane Sandy hitting the East Cost really bad last week, Disney’s ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ scored a solid performance after its debuted this weekend at the box office.
Disney’s video game themed animated movie scored $49.1 million from 3,752 theaters in North America. The $165 million-budgeted family film breaks the record for the biggest debut for a Disney Animation Studios movie, this does not include any Disney Pixar films.
“For a company whose foundation was built on animation, it’s a pretty incredible thing to have Tangled and now Wreck-It Ralph do such great business,” says Walt Disney Pictures’ VP distribution Dave Hollis.
‘Wreck-It Ralph’ beat the record of Disney’s “Tangled” which grossed $48.8 million on its Wednesday opening back in 2010.
