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Mufasa: The Lion King

2024 PG 1h 58m Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Remember the story.

Box office summary
Opening Weekend
$35.4M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$253.0M
Final
Worldwide Total
$723M
Global total
Budget
$200M
Production
Domestic Legs
7.15x
Opening → Total
2024 Rank
#9
Domestic
Compare with other movies
Predicted Final Domestic
$167M–$182M
$152M $174M $196M
$253M so far

The prediction model updated after a -4% second-weekend drop. The wider range of $152M–$196M accounts for 90% of films.

$106M
Baseline
Animation Franchise — 3.00 baseline opening
-4%
CinemaScore
A-: Animation avg is A
0%
Audience
Above Avg — RT 77%, LB 3.30, IMDB 6.6
+31%
Seasonality
Christmas
0%
Sequel
Franchise
0%
Release Day
Friday (standard)
+18%
2nd Weekend
-4% drop
+9%
Genre
Animation Franchise legs
Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 20-22 2 $35.4M $35.4M 4,100 $9K 1
Dec 27-29 2 $36.8M +3.9% $113.2M 4,100 $9K 2
Jan 3-5 1 $23.5M -36.3% $168.2M 3,925 $6K 3
Jan 10-12 2 $14.2M -39.4% $189.8M 3,620 $4K 4
Jan 17-19 3 $5.8M -59.6% $199.6M 3,245 $2K 5
Jan 24-26 4 $4.3M -24.7% $206.6M 2,844 $2K 6
Jan 31-2 5 $3.7M -15.2% $212.4M 2,444 $2K 7
Feb 7-9 7 $3.1M -15.5% $217.4M 2,116 $1K 8
Feb 14-16 8 $2.9M -7.5% $221.7M 1,925 $1K 9
Feb 21-23 10 $2.6M -8.9% $245.4M 1,925 $1K 10
Feb 28-2 7 $2.0M -24.2% $248.1M 1,705 $1K 11
Mar 7-9 10 $1.7M -16.3% $250.5M 1,460 $1K 12
Mar 14-16 12 $1.2M -25.2% $252.5M 1,175 $1K 13

Performance Charts

Daily Gross

Cumulative Total

Weekend Gross Trend

Theater Count

Profitability

Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

Week-over-Week Drop

Weekly Gross Decline (%)

Cast & Crew

Directed byBarry Jenkins
ScreenplayJeff Nathanson
Produced byAdele Romanski, Mark Ceryak
CinematographyJames Laxton
MusicHans Zimmer
Prod. DesignJay Hart
StarringSeth Rogen, Billy Eichner, Donald Glover, Beyoncé