{"id":3415,"date":"2025-01-28T23:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T05:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2025-01-28T23:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T05:43:58","slug":"moana-2-killing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2025\/01\/moana-2-killing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Moana 2 Killing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t watched it yet; but being a big fan of the first one, I&#8217;m excited Moana 2 is doing so well theatrically. It recently crossed over the <a title=\"What can I say except cha-ching?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/01\/21\/moana-2-1-billion-dollars-box-office.html#:~:text=Walt%20Disney%20Animation's%20%22Moana%202,it%20bought%20Fox%20in%202019.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1B mark in total gross<\/a>, which granted is an arbitrary threshold, but impressive nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Moana2-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3413 size-medium\" title=\"How did it take 9 years to make this?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Moana2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot from Moana 2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article above mentions Moana 2 is the fourth film from Walt Disney Animation to cross the magical $1 Billion mark (which excludes Pixar movies). Two of the other three on the list wasn&#8217;t much of a surprise &#8211; Frozen and Frozen 2 &#8211; but I didn&#8217;t realize the other film was Zootopia. <\/p>\n<p>Much like the first Moana, I was a fan of Zootopia and felt it was underappreciated. Then again, given it&#8217;s performance at the Box Office, maybe not. There was a spinoff series in 2022, and a sequel is (finally) coming out later this year. The fact that it took so long to make one, particularly given its box office success, is surprising. Much like Moana, I guess better late than never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t watched it yet; but being a big fan of the first one, I&#8217;m excited Moana 2 is doing so well theatrically. It recently crossed over the $1B mark in total gross, which granted is an arbitrary threshold, but impressive nonetheless. The article above mentions Moana 2 is the fourth film from Walt Disney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,154],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-moana","tag-zootopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}