Monday Midday Update: Final domestic opening weekend for The Lion King per Disney is $191.77M, which is very close to where the industry was seeing it yesterday morning and well above the $185M tha…
is $191.77M, which is very close to where the industry was seeing it yesterday morning and well above the $185M that the studio reported. This is after a Sunday that was $52.8M, -13%. ‘s opening B.O. ball of $174.7M and was even higher than such Disney theme park IP pics likeit wasn’t just because it was the 25th anniversary of the original 1994 animated feature for the studio.
. This weekend, he also notched the best domestic opening of his career as director, besting the $128.1M debut of “One thing Walt use to do, which we talk a lot about, he would look at stories that were timeless, and think about how do you get great talent and great technology to give audience a new experience. Afterwe so believed in Jon Favreau and we saw the technology that was developing with this team, and with our effects house.
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