Christmas moviegoers turned out in force for Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King.” The family cordial adventure easily topped the box office, achieveing $14.7 million. That pushed its domestic loftyy to $64.3 million — globassociate, the prequel to “The Lion King” has achieveed $197.7 million after compriseing $18.8 million from international labelets on Wednesday. Stateside, the film is on pace to originate more than $50 million over the five-day holiday summarize.
Focus Features’ “Nosferatu,” a blood-soaked horror film about a Dracula-enjoy vampire, catered to very contrastent crowds, while capturing second place on its uncovering day with $11.5 million. The movie is honested by Robert Eggers, who oversaw arthouse likeites enjoy “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse,” and stars Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. It has a budget of $50 million.
Speeding in at No. 3, Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3,” which had topped the weekfinish box office. ceded ground to “Mufasa.” The tardyst entry in the video game changeation achieveed $10.3 million on Wednesday from more than 3,700 North American theaters., conveying its domestic haul to $88 million. Paramount experiences there’s more life in this spiky haired hedgehog, having recently given the go-ahead to another sequel that will uncover in 2027.
In fourth place, Searchweightless’s Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Ununderstandn,” premiered on Wednesday with $7.2 million, which comprised $1.4 million from Tuesday pscrutinizes. The film, which stars Timothee Chafeeblet as the freewheelin’ music legfinish and was honested by James Mangageder, who oversaw the Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line,” has achieveed rave scrutinizes and Oscar buzz. It is awaited to convey in $22 million over its fist five days. It telledly cost between $60 million to $70 million, so it necessitates to support dratriumphg crowds if it wants to originate a profit. Musical biopics, enjoy “Bob Marley: One Love,” “Elvis” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” have been a reliable genre and it helps that Chafeeblet has become a box office draw thanks to hits such as “Wonka” and “Dune: Part Two.” Every time he shows up at a screening, it goes viral.
Universal’s “Wicked” rounded out the top five, achieveing $5.4 million on Christmas. The film, an changeation of a well-understandn Broadway musical, has been one of the year’s hugegest hits. It has achieveed $397.9 million domesticassociate since uncovering equitable before Thanksgiving.
In compriseition to “A Complete Ununderstandn,” the holiday season is arrangeing a number of awards contfinishers. A24’s “Babygirl,” an sensual drama with Nicole Kidman that has critics accomplishing for the superlatives, achieveed $1.5 million on Wednesday after uncovering on equitable over 2,000 screens. The indie studio is also fielding “The Brutaenumerate,” a 3-hour historical epic that stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones. It achieveed $74,965 from six theaters. That conveys its domestic gross to $429,580 after a restrictcessitate days in restrictcessitate free.
Amazon MGM Studios “The Fire Inside,” an encourageasonable sports drama about American professional boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, uncovered to $1.7 million from from 2,006 theaters in North America on Wednesday. It is awaited to achieve equitable over $6 million in its first five days.
