Disney’s Mufasa - the lion king

[Disney Irish]

Scraping to make your costs back is some new definition of “succeeding”, eh Junior?

A majority of movies out there strive to just make their costs back and only hope to earn a small profit, and most would consider that "succeeding".

We've unfortunately been trained over the last decade or so to expect huge returns at the box office, but that is not the reality for most movies.

I don’t want to bring it up (really I don’t)…but this looks to land almost exactly where a 2023 “failure/non-failure” did…

So then don't, I think you actual revel in such discussions its why you keep bringing it up.

It’s interesting to watch…so by early next week…post holidays…should be pretty definitive?

It has most of January clear without any major release, so should still have a few weeks of good box office.

 

[Disney Irish]

Can it overtake those constantly moving goalposts?

Depends on which goalpost we're talking about this time, too many to keep track at this point.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Have we reached the part where we now throw big budget Disney productions in the same basket as every other studio hack job?

I’ve missed this one too.

The reason we are all here is the history and reputation for Disney NOT to do that…

Now if the want to say that times are changing and they’ll just grind for diminishing returns? Ok…that fine

And then we agree they new management

And captain obvious fan sleep easy tonight

Now give me a “the stream is gonna make TRILLIONS!!” So we can check that off abs all go to bed

 

[BrianLo]

Now if the want to say that times are changing and they’ll just grind for diminishing returns? Ok…that fine

Absolutely not, but 1 modest success and three large ones (with a couple moderate-budget successes) is actually quite a good year. Studios having all their movies break even is pretty rare, even in the Disney glory days. This year they have three notable success stories. We’re not experiencing the 2023 redux.

Mufasa somehow seems to be on track to actually make money, not just break even.


I’ll go ahead and say it; Mermaid is a great comp. It’s looking to overshoot that one by maybe 100M if this keeps up and spent 80% of the budget… so it’s a pretty clear call this time.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Absolutely not, but 1 modest success and three large ones (with a couple moderate-budget successes) is actually quite a good year. Studios having all their movies break even is pretty rare, even in the Disney glory days. This year they have three notable success stories. We’re not experiencing the 2023 redux.

Mufasa somehow seems to be on track to actually make money, not just break even.


I’ll go ahead and say it; Mermaid is a great comp. It’s looking to overshoot that one by maybe 100M if this keeps up and spent 80% of the budget… so it’s a pretty clear call this time.

They had a good year…I’m on record

This was misguided…and the world seems to want less of that.

Keep getting back to center

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Mufasa somehow seems to be on track to actually make money, not just break even.

Rough sledding. It’s possible but I think it fails on the international

I’ll go ahead and say it; Mermaid is a great comp. It’s looking to overshoot that one by maybe 100M if this keeps up and spent 80% of the budget… so it’s a pretty clear call this time.

I didn’t say anything…you can’t prove anything

But two questions:
1. Does this mean no crossover?
2. How is Jay-Z’s family gonna afford food now?

…the legal bills (too soon? )

 

[BrianLo]

Saw this one today. I rather liked it, actually. A good step up from the original and similarly I could have done with like 1/3rd of Timon and Pumba, though not Kiara or Rafiki.

I’m not surprised word of mouth is proving better than expected. Nor that its relatively terrible opening aligned with my own lack of eagerness for this film.

It’s at least worth a watch on streaming, but it was pretty in IMAX.

 

[erasure fan1]

Saw this one today. I rather liked it, actually. A good step up from the original

That's why I have said from the start, the 2019 film was probably going to hurt this one. If they did mufasa instead of the remake, I think it's doing A LOT better. As I've said, telling new stories in these universes would have been a much smarter approach than remakes.

 

[DarkMetroid567]

Rewatching the remake after Mufasa did make that clear. It makes the remake look really stilted and bad.

 

[Frankenstein79]

I don't understand why so many movies by Disney lately look so flat and blurry. Like a broken or unset television. Lion King, Wish and Snow White for some reason have a blurry look to them. No other company has that problem.

 

[Frankenstein79]

Disney seems to have forced theaters to put Mufasa on the big Imax screens. So it seems to have an unfair advantage over it's competition. Put with that that it Globally opened up on the 18th in some countries (Sonic mostly debut on the 25th or later in a majority of countries). It really gave it a headstart. Sonic should have debut on a different date.

 

[MickeyMouse10]

Disney seems to have forced theaters to put Mufasa on the big Imax screens. So it seems to have an unfair advantage over it's competition. Put with that that it Globally opened up on the 18th in some countries (Sonic mostly debut on the 25th or later in a majority of countries). It really gave it a headstart. Sonic should have debut on a different date.

Yeah, most people on this thread don't want to mention those things. Because it doesn't support their arguments.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Disney seems to have forced theaters to put Mufasa on the big Imax screens.

Source?

 

[RunForestRun]

Source?

Geez, you people!

It's obvious to anyone that this movie is awful. And they used their power and monopoly to force theaters into handing over the big rooms.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Geez, you people!

It's obvious to anyone that this movie is awful. And they used their power and monopoly to force theaters into handing over the big rooms.

Source?

 

[Frankenstein79]

Source?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/business/sonic-mufasa-lion-king-box-office.html#:~:text=Adding%20to%20the%20humiliation%20for,shown%20in%20any%20IMAX%20locations.

‘Sonic 3’ bests ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ at the box office

“Sonic the Hedgehog 3” debuted with $62 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates.

www.actionnews5.com

'Sonic 3' bests 'Mufasa' at box office

According to studio estimates, ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ debuted with $62 million in domestic ticket sales over the weekend, while ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ returned just $35 million

www.voanews.com

'Sonic 3' bests 'Mufasa: The Lion King' at the box office

In the holiday season battle of big-budget family movies, Paramount Pictures’ “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” sped past the Walt Disney Co.’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” to take the top spot at the box office

abcnews.go.com

Wkd Box Office • 12/27-29/24 • Robert Eggers Dreams of a White Christmas. Entertainment

The holidays have been very kind to Mufasa, and honestly everyone in this lane is doing pretty good. Holiday weekdays have excellent walkups and this season is no exception. Folks are clearly out to see one movie on one day and another on the next. Boxing day was huge for Sonic 3, after...

www.resetera.com

 

[Frankenstein79]

LOL, what do you need 100? Get your head out of the sand.

 

[MisterPenguin]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/business/sonic-mufasa-lion-king-box-office.html#:~:text=Adding%20to%20the%20humiliation%20for,shown%20in%20any%20IMAX%20locations.

‘Sonic 3’ bests ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ at the box office

“Sonic the Hedgehog 3” debuted with $62 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates.

www.actionnews5.com

'Sonic 3' bests 'Mufasa' at box office

According to studio estimates, ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ debuted with $62 million in domestic ticket sales over the weekend, while ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ returned just $35 million

www.voanews.com

'Sonic 3' bests 'Mufasa: The Lion King' at the box office

In the holiday season battle of big-budget family movies, Paramount Pictures’ “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” sped past the Walt Disney Co.’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” to take the top spot at the box office

abcnews.go.com

Wkd Box Office • 12/27-29/24 • Robert Eggers Dreams of a White Christmas. Entertainment

The holidays have been very kind to Mufasa, and honestly everyone in this lane is doing pretty good. Holiday weekdays have excellent walkups and this season is no exception. Folks are clearly out to see one movie on one day and another on the next. Boxing day was huge for Sonic 3, after...

www.resetera.com

When 3 articles use the same phrase "gobbling up IMAX screens," it's obvious they're just all repeating some original source. So, posting the same article 3 times in a row doesn't give it extra weight.

Anyhoo you said: Disney seems to have forced theaters to put Mufasa on the big Imax screens.

You know that not one article you quoted mentioned anything about *forcing* Mufasa on IMAX, right? Your source(s) do not back up your claim.

And you know that theaters have a vested interested in betting on what they hope would be the biggest tentpole so as to maximize their own profits, right? Theaters have a reason to willingly put a Disney film in their highest-earning theaters.

You're the one making up things to support your agenda.

Good day.

 

[DKampy]

Disney seems to have forced theaters to put Mufasa on the big Imax screens. So it seems to have an unfair advantage over it's competition.

Forced???…. Lion King was a billion dollar film…. Sonic movies have yet to even come close to a billion…It’s not tough to imagine theaters would give Mufasa the priority… The Ultrascreen( our local chain’s version of the IMAX) split it’s showtimes between Mufasa and Sonic….this week they took away Sonic’s times in favor of more Mufasa screenings…. That tells me Mufasa is selling more there…. As theaters are in the business of turning profit

Mufasa has an 88% on rotten Tomatoes audience score….so plenty of people disagree with your opinion on Mufasa

 

[DKampy]

Source???

lol…all to defend the ceo with no clothes

It’s amazing how long this has gone on as the business slides

If this was towards me… I am not defending anything… just stating clear facts from what I have seen… sorry if I don’t take what some of the haters say all in the name of narrative… especially when their reasoning is because there is no way anyone likes this movie…. Because their opinion must be fact

But what do I know… I must be a shill…. My check just did not clear for Wish, Haunted Mansion, Quantumania, Lightyear…. Which is why I did not care for those

And I am no Sonic hater… as someone who goes to the theater weekly….I want all films succeed….I am just dispelling some of the conspiracy thereories going on here