'The Lion King' scored the biggest opening day ever for a non-Marvel/non-'Star Wars' Walt Disney theatrical release.
means in a macro sense, the micro of it is that folks just really like watchingin theaters. The mixed-negative reviews that argued that this Jon Favreau-directed version was essentially a re-painted and buttoned down version of the same movie you saw in 1994 and then bought in 1995, weren't so much pans as reassurances.
That $78.5 million Friday gross is Walt Disney's biggest single-day gross ever, even accounting for inflation, for anything that wasn't an MCU flick or aHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II , which opened with $92 million in 2011 but then front-loaded to $169 million, which is still the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of July. Accounting for inflation, it's fourth behindsequels , all of which opened on this exact weekend. WillLegs merely as"long" asto $184 million, which would be the biggest July launch of all time and Disney's second-biggest non-MCU/non-.
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