Walt Disney Animation’s blockbuster Moana 2 continues to smash records in its second weekend, hitting an early global haul of $600 million, already ahead of the first film’s global take of $582 million at current exchange rates.

The sequel remained safely ensconced at No. 1 with an estimated three-day gross in of $52 million from 4,300 theaters in North America — the top gross of all time for the weekend following Thanksgiving by a mile. The previous record-holder was fellow Disney pic Frozen II at $35.1 million, not adjusted for inflation. And on Friday — in yet another milestone — Moana 2 earned a hefty $11.7 million, passing up the entire lifetime domestic gross of Moana ($248.7 million) after only 10 days in release. The pic fell 63 percent from the three-day Thanksgiving weekend.

Overseas, the animated blockbuster took in another $103.4 million for a foreign tally of $300 million and $600 million worldwide, already making it the fifth-biggest film of the year and...