After a close battle with Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” during the holiday season, Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” emerged victorious with a domestic box office total of 168.6 million dollars and 23.8 million dollars. won the first weekend of the new year. It surpassed the $300 million mark overseas, finishing Sunday with a worldwide total of $476.4 million.
Sonic 3 is certainly no slouch, coming in second place this weekend with $21.2 million, behind Mufasa, for a domestic total of $187.5 million. Additionally, Paramount announced Sunday that worldwide ticket sales for the iconic series based on the Sega video game have surpassed $1 billion. With Keanu Reeves joining Jim Carrey’s star-studded cast, the trilogy was a huge crowd-pleaser.
Robert Eggers and Focus Features’ holiday vampire pic “Nosferatu” came in third with $13.2, bringing in $69.4 million at the domestic box office in its second weekend. The picture was among several movies released across the country on Christmas Day. Sonic 3 and Mufasa opened on December 20th and is currently in its third weekend.
“Nosferatu” far exceeded expectations and is the highest-grossing Christmas horror film opening of all time. This male-biased film stars Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, and Bill Skarsgård.
Disney is aiming to enter the $1 billion box office club after its Thanksgiving hit “Moana 2” ranked fourth domestically and earned $12.4 million for its sixth film. The animated pic had grossed $425.2 million domestically and $553.3 million internationally through Sunday, for a domestic total of $960.5 million.
Universal’s Golden Globe-nominated film “Wicked” rounded out the top five with $10.2 million, bringing the domestic total to $450.7 million.
Disney’s specialized division, Searchlight Pictures, is also smiling. Timothée Chalamet’s acclaimed “Complete Unknown,” another nominee for Best Picture at the Globes, continues to exceed expectations after its December 25 release. It finished in sixth place over the weekend with $8.1 million, and the domestic box office gross was $41.7 million. The film received a perfect A Cinema Score from audiences (so far, the film has skewed toward women and older adults) and became Searchlight’s highest-grossing film since it was acquired by Disney. It became.
A24’s much talked about Oscar-hopped film Baby Girl, starring Nicole Kidman, was No. 7 in its second week with an estimated $4.5 million and a domestic total of $16.1 million (Kidman is a Globe nominee for Best Actor). ). A24 also has the Globe nominee for Best Picture, The Brutalist, which avoided a national release in favor of a traditional platform rollout. The second film, starring Adrien Brody, has increased the number of locations to eight and has already grossed $1.2 million.
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