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It’s good to be the king.
After two weekends playing second fiddle to a blue hedgehog, Mufasa: The Lion King clawed his way to the top of the box-office heap. Disney’s Lion King prequel earned an estimated $23.8 million in North America and thus became 2025’s first No. 1 film.
Mufasa has earned $168.6 million in its domestic run so far. And it’s doing even better overseas, where it’s racked up and additional $307.8 million. That boosts its overall take to a very kingly $476.4 million—which’ll only encourage Disney to make more Lion King-adjacent films. (My bet: An origin story for Timon and Pumbaa. Maybe a gritty buddy-cop sorta thing.)
But while Sonic the Hedgehog 3 fell, it didn’t fall far. We find the film at No. 2, having earned $21.2 million domestically over the weekend. That pushes its own North American tally to $187.5 million. Not a bad way to, ahem, ring in the new year.
The weekend proved to be a pretty family-centric at the box office, too, with four of the top five films rated PG. The one outlier? Nosferatu, which crawled into third place with $13.2 million. The artsy horror flick has now sucked up $69.4 million in North America, and $100.4 million worldwide.
Moana 2 landed in fourth place with $12.4 million. It has now sailed to $425.2 million domestically. And as we’ve seen the past several weeks, where Moana 2 is, Wicked: Part 1 is sure to be nearby. Wicked landed in fifth place and cackled its way to $10.2 million. Its own overall domestic tally stands at $450.8 million. Elphaba might be looking at the $500 million mark and saying, “I’ll get you, my pretty! And your little Oscar, too!”
The only newcomer of note proved to be The Damned, which sailed to $801,000 and landed, unluckily, into 13th place.
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