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Disney’s ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Scores Big At The Box Office

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.

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