{"id":123842,"date":"2024-11-09T12:11:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T05:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123842"},"modified":"2024-11-09T12:11:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T05:11:52","slug":"mufasa-the-lion-king-eyes-66m-opening-early-box-office-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123842","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mufasa: The Lion King&#8217; Eyes $66M+ Opening: Early Box Office Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe six-week-out projection for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney\" data-tag=\"disney\">Disney<\/a>\u2018s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mufasa-the-lion-king\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mufasa-the-lion-king\" data-tag=\"mufasa-the-lion-king\">Mufasa: The Lion King<\/a> <\/em>has hit via Quorum tracking service, which sees it at a<strong> $59 million-$66 million<\/strong> opening when the Barry Jenkins-directed prequel hits cinemas on December 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKeep in mind that the fire-breathing campaigns for <em>Mufasa <\/em>and Paramount\u2019s <em>Sonic The Hedgehog 3 <\/em>haven\u2019t truly begun yet; heck, they\u2019ll be dropping trailers left, right and center during the box office perfect storm that is <em>Wicked, Gladiator II <\/em>and <em>Moana 2. <\/em>Also, keep in mind the prediction is for general audiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn the Quorum \u2018Pay to See\u2019 scale \u2014 meaning audiences polled who\u2019ll actually shell out money to get off the couch \u2014 <em>Mufasa <\/em>roars with a 62, a number up there with the Thanksgiving holy trinity of <em>Wicked <\/em>(64)<em>, Gladiator II <\/em>(63) and <em>Moana 2<\/em> (62).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>Mufasa <\/em>skews more female, while <em>Sonic the Hedgehog 3, <\/em>which it\u2019s opening against, skews male. <em>Mufasa <\/em>also looks to grab the over-35 audience, while the latter is younger. <em>Mufasa<\/em>, which tells the origin story of Simba\u2019s king-to-be father, features voices that include Aaron Pierre, Donald Glover, Thandiwe Newton, Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile the weekend before Christmas has been home to some of the biggest openings of all time \u2014 like the second-best ever domestic start of <em>Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em> at $260M (December 17, 2021) \u2014 it\u2019s all about the 5-6x multiple that can be generated from a movie bowing in this corridor. Christmas falls on a Wednesday this year, and from that point on moviegoing is full tilt, with some filmgoers seeing 2-3 movies through the first weekend of the New Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>Mufasa<\/em>, a photorealistic animated movie, is a prequel to the 2019 version of <em>The Lion King, <\/em>directed by Jon Favreau, which opened to $191.7M and went on to gross $543.6M domestic, $1.66 billion global.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDisney didn\u2019t respond for request for comment on the <em>Mufasa <\/em>projections. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNote that Quorum was the first tracking service to forecast that Disney\/Marvel Studios\u2019 <em>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine <\/em>would exceed $200M in its opening weekend.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/11\/mufasa-the-lion-king-opening-projection-1236171393\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six-week-out projection for Disney\u2018s Mufasa: The Lion King has hit via Quorum tracking service, which sees it at a $59 million-$66 million opening when the Barry Jenkins-directed prequel hits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123842\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}