The “Lion King” prequel arrived to weak ticket sales last month, but moviegoers have since embraced it, pushing global box office returns toward $700 million.

Per Deadline, Mufasa: The Lion King is projected to earn $11.5 million through Sunday and $15.5 million through the four-day MLK holiday weekend. If the estimate holds it will boost Mufasa’s running domestic tally to $209.7 million since its Dec. 20, 2024, opening.

Mufasa: The Lion King continues its winning run at the box office as it surpasses Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire to move up in 2024’s highest-grossing films list worldwide. It is also rapidly approaching a vital milestone globally. However, it will be hard for it to surpass Wicked’s $709.65 million worldwide gross. Scroll below for the deets.

D espite having completed a full month in theaters worldwide, Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King appears to have some life left. The big-budget film topped the domestic box office cha

The Keke Palmer buddy comedy “One of Them Days” opened in first place on the North American box office charts on a particularly slow Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.

Pitched by Sony as the first black female led theatrical comedy since 2017’s Girls Trip, One Of Them Days stars Keke Palmer and SZA as best friends and roommates trying to avoid eviction. Lawrence Lamont directs for producer Issa Rae.

Wolf Man's howls are drowned out at the domestic box office in its debut as Mufasa, Nosferatu, and Moana 2 continue to dominate the big screen.

The U.K. and Ireland box office saw Disney’s “ Mufasa: The Lion King ” stay at the top in its fourth week, roaring to £2.2 million ($2.6 million) over the weekend and bringing its cumulative total to £24 million ($29.2 million), according to numbers from Comscore.

The bad news overall: it looks to be one of the slowest MLK weekends in years as Hollywood and theaters prepare for another slowdown in product in the first quarter of 2025. Speaker Mike Johnson Suggests "Conditions" Needed on Federal Aid for L.

With Universal/Blumhouse's "Wolf Man" opening below projections, the No. 1 spot at the MLK weekend box office is up for grabs as Disney's "Mufasa" is contending with Sony's new buddy comedy "One of Them Days" For the extended weekend,