Tangled Tops $150 Million at Domestic Box Office, Tron Passes $100 Million

Congratulations to the Tangled team. It's worldwide total now stands at over $272 million.

While Tron: Legacy had a tough fall last weekend, it's been consistently grossing ~$6 million a day during the week. But school starts in many parts of the country on Monday. It's looking at $150 million total domestically. That's merely okay.

The Hollywood Reporter:

Disney's Thanksgiving film Tangled has transformed into the gift that won't stop giving, jumping the $150 million mark this week at the domestic box office and keeping up with newer Christmas family offerings.

Tangled grossed $3.6 million on Tuesday from 2,582 theaters for a cume of $150.6 million in its fifth week.

Disney's Tron: Legacy registered its own milestone Tuesday as it became the first Christmas film to cross the $100 million mark domestically. Overseas, the pic has brought in roughly $75 million for a worldwide total of $175 million.

Tron is a solid performer, but it hasn't broken out to the extent Disney might have liked beyond its core fanboy base.

Conversely, Tangled has done far more business than anyone predicted. Most had expected the film to gross $125 million domestically. Now, the movie is expected to reach $175 million.

Laughingplace: A Visit to Tokyo Disneyland's Club 33

Located on Main Street, USA.

Looks much roomier than its California counterpart.

Warner Brothers' Space Jam Website, Untouched Since 1996

Awesome.

Aerial Photos of the Magic Kingdom's Fantasyland Expansion

You really get a sense of how dramatically the expansion will alter Fantasyland.

Once completed, Fantasyland will more than double in size.

NYTimes: Disney Tackles Major Theme Park Problem - Lines

The New York Times:

And so it has spent the last year outfitting an underground, nerve center to address that most low-tech of problems, the wait. Located under Cinderella Castle, the new center uses video cameras, computer programs, digital park maps and other whiz-bang tools to spot gridlock before it forms and deploy countermeasures in real time.

In one corner, employees watch flat-screen televisions that depict various attractions in green, yellow and red outlines, with the colors representing wait-time gradations.

If Pirates of the Caribbean, the ride that sends people on a spirited voyage through the Spanish Main, suddenly blinks from green to yellow, the center might respond by alerting managers to launch more boats.

It's all about getting guests out of the queue and into the shops and restaurants. That's not cynical, it's reality. A happy guest spends more.

Visualize the Year in Box Office

via The Film Stage:

ERC revealed today that the 2010 box office has tallied up to $10.55 billion. This is a .3% drop from 2009′s $10.58 billion box office but due to inflation, a 5% decrease in attendance. Xach has created a neat visualization of this figure in today’s Daily Distraction.

Around Disney: Slideshow of Holiday Crowds

I'll be honest, right now does not sound like a fun time to be at the Disneyland Resort.

MiceAge: Disneyland Resort Year in Review

The crazy thing is that 2011 stands to see significantly more changes.

Tron Drops 54%, Stands at $88 Million

Andre Dellamorte:

Tron collapsed. Part of this could be the holiday weekend, and potential loss of Friday evenings and Saturday morning business, but it's going to have to rebound/not fall next weekend if it's going to have any shot at $150 domestic. Since Disney has suggested that's the production budget, that would be the number that would be a saving throw. But as it was off over 50% from the opening weekend (compared to Avatar's 1.8%), this doesn't get pretty, unless international is strong (which so far it hasn't been). I don't think there's any way to look at these numbers positively, if there was I'd share it.

Not the box office hit Disney was hoping for, but if it sticks for young boys and merchandise sales are strong then we could still see that Disneyland attraction anyways.