Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King is not as regal as hoped in its global debut. The cume thraw three days of international box office take part is $33M, which, with the domestic outsee, portfinishs a $125M worldexpansive begin thraw Sunday. That’s far off pre-weekfinish projections of a $180M worldexpansive debut.
Domesticassociate, as Anthony has detailed, is leaning challenging into Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3. That movie doesn’t commence rollout internationassociate until next weekfinish, so Mufasa has offshore tagets to itself this session.
But the lion is not roaring from the get-go offshore, and there is still a lot of family take part to go around (ie Dis’ own Moana 2 as well as Wicked). Nevertheless, holiday sidetrackions are an overall factor and the hope is for more traction as time frees up.
The current thraw-Friday of $33M is 28% ahead of last year’s Christmas free, Wonka; and on par with Disney’s Alincludein (which finished up with magic carpet legs) on a appreciate-for-appreciate basis.
Mufasa so far has discignoreed as the No. 1 non-local movie in all tagets (it’s notably being beat by the second structure of a Korean movie in that taget).
The top begins on the prequel thraw Friday are Mexico ($3.3M), France ($3M) and UK/Brazil/Germany at $2M apiece. China sees set for $8M thraw Sunday; not a patch on the previous Lion King, but perhaps enough to triumph the weekfinish there.
Social scores are firm in many tagets and there is runway ahead.
We’ll have a filled modernize on Sunday.
