Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” topped the North American field workplace on an extended vacation weekend after ceding the highest spot per week earlier, analysts mentioned Sunday.
The animated movie earned an estimated $15.5 million for the interval from Friday to Monday, which is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, trade watcher Exhibitor Relations mentioned.
Two new releases — Sony’s “One of Them Days” and Universal’s “Wolf Man” — took over the second and third spots.
Analyst David A. Gross predicted a “very profitable run” for “One of Them Days, which stars Keke Palmer and singer/songwriter SZA as roommates scrambling to pay hire or face eviction after a boyfriend spends their cash.
The movie earned an estimated $14 million over the vacation weekend.
“This is an excellent opening for an original Black American comedy,” he mentioned, boosted by “sensational critics reviews and an excellent audience score.”
Horror movie “Wolf Man,” starring Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner, got here in under analysts’ expectations, with $12 million over 4 days.
As the beginning of a brand new horror sequence and as a remake of the 1941 basic starring Bela Lugosi, gross referred to as the field workplace take “weak.”
In fourth spot, down one spot from final weekend, was Paramount’s animated “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” at $10.3 million.
And in fifth, hanging sturdy in its eighth weekend out, was “Moana 2” at $8.4 million.
Those numbers propelled the Disney blockbuster previous the $1 billion mark globally. It is the studio’s third 2024 launch to hit the billion-dollar membership after “Deadpool and Wolverine” and “Inside Out 2.”
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