Rather, its downstream revenues and subsequent home windows must be taken into account.
By traditional studio P&L standards, some of those releases would be considered flops.
Given that, Apple and Amazon are excluded from this years survey.
‘Mufasa: The Lion King’Disney
So, it stands to reason thatLion Kingwould receive some sort of next installment.
Aaron Pierre joined as the young Mufasa, and Kelvin Harrison Jr as Taka.
Lin-Manuel Miranda was enlisted to write the songs as he almost starred in JenkinsIf Beale Street Could Talk.
Miranda worked with the original performer on the 1994 movie, Lebo M, to co-pen songs.
But the reviews werent shiny on the Jon Favreau-directed 2019 redo either.
No matter,Mufasascored an A- CinemaScore to the 2019 versions A.
2 with $35.4M toSonic 3s $60.1M.
Stateside, family moviegoing always explodes post-Christmas, and thats whenMufasabegan to show his claws againstSonic.
Mufasawon Christmas Day overSonic 3$14.7M-$10.3M, and then went on to finish No.
1 in its third and fifth weekends at the box office.
For Disney,Mufasawon in the long game with a net profit of $175M.
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