{"id":650189,"date":"2026-06-21T07:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650189\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T07:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:23:13","slug":"live-action-moana-sailing-for-85-million-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650189\/","title":{"rendered":"Live-Action &#8220;Moana&#8221; Sailing For $85 Million Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/live-action-moana-sailing-for-85-million-start.jpg\" data-caption=\"Disney\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/live-action-moana-sailing-for-85-million-start.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"live-action-moana-sailing-for-85-million-start\"\/><\/a>Disney<\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s upcoming live-action adaptation of its 2016 animated hit \u201cMoana\u201d looks set to make its debut with an opening better than its progenitor.<\/p>\n<p>The film hit tracking services the other day, and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/box-office-moana-projection-1236959343\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> reports that the title is projected to make $85 million in its domestic opening weekend next month.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s well above the $56.5 million the original animated film opened to in 2016, but behind the eye-wagering $139.7 million that \u201cMoana 2\u201d debuted with.<\/p>\n<p>The number is very close to the live-action \u201cHow to Train Your Dragon\u201d which debuted with $84.6 million and ultimately grossed $636 million.<\/p>\n<p>17-year-old Australian actress Catherine Laga\u2019aia (\u201cThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart\u201d) plays the title role alongside Dwayne Johnson who reprises his role as the demigod Maui.<\/p>\n<p>In the film, Moana answers the Ocean\u2019s call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Kail directs from a script by Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller. The live-action \u201cMoana\u201d movie is set to release in cinemas on July 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/avengers-doomsday-leak-talk-resurfaces\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d Leak Talk Resurfaces<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/famke-janssen-on-marvels-avengers-mistake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Famke Janssen On Marvel\u2019s \u201cAvengers\u201d Mistake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney Disney\u2019s upcoming live-action adaptation of its 2016 animated hit \u201cMoana\u201d looks set to make its debut with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}