Disney’s Hexed box office prospects are drawing early attention as the original animated fantasy heads toward its Thanksgiving release. The film opens in US cinemas on November 25, 2026, and long-range tracking reported by Boxoffice Pro puts it on course for $35 million to $45 million over its first three days and up to $70 million across the five-day Thanksgiving holiday, according to Pirates and Princesses and Comic Basics, which both reported the forecast on October 30–31, 2026.
Those figures are forecasts, not results, and tracking this far out routinely moves as marketing builds and tickets go on sale. Still, the range is notable because Hexed is an original story rather than a sequel — the studio’s 65th animated feature, according to Comic Basics — and original animated films face a harder task than established franchises when it comes to opening-weekend awareness. Tickets are now on sale, according to Disney by Mark, which also reported the November 25 date.
A mother-daughter story in a witch realm
Hexed follows Billie Doe, voiced by Hailee Steinfeld, an impulsive teenage girl who discovers secret magical abilities that pull her out of suburbia and into Hexe, a vast witch realm. She is forced to team up with her cautious mother Alice, voiced by Rashida Jones, and together they uncover family mysteries that could change the world of witches forever, according to Disney’s official synopsis quoted by Rank Magazine and the film’s trailer listings.
The voice cast is one of the film’s strongest selling points. Jodie Foster voices the sinister Queen Celeste, Walton Goggins voices Beef Roger Crummchuk, a reclusive three-eyed cat, and Henry Winkler joins as Nigel, a skittish potoo bird, with Dan Stevens as Hieronymous, Queen Celeste’s grand councillor, according to SoCalThrills and Rank Magazine. Tracey Ullman, Stephen Fry, Brett Gelman, Samson Kayo, Jimmy O. Yang and Ron Funches are also in the ensemble.
Directed by Disney Animation veterans
The film is directed by Fawn Veerasunthorn and Jason Hand, co-directed by Josie Trinidad, produced by Roy Conli and Yvett Merino, and written by Walt Disney Animation Studios chief creative officer Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller, according to Disney’s official credits quoted by Rank Magazine and SoCalThrills. A new Lilo & Stitch short, Lilo & Scratch, is also reported to play before Hexed in cinemas.
For Disney, the Thanksgiving corridor has long been prime territory for animated releases, and Hexed will test whether a brand-new world, led by a mother-daughter pairing, can hold its own there. The tracking suggests cautious optimism — now the film has to deliver a story audiences want to return to after the holiday weekend.
