‘The Lion King’ Joins Disney’s Billion-Dollar Box-Office Club Of

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Jon Favreau’s not doing so unhealthy currently, particularly the place Disney is worried. He popped in as Happy Hogan in the costliest Avengers: Endgame scene and directed the (too?) photorealistic The Lion King remake, which was destined to succeed in nice heights on the box-office. However, these heights are nearly absurd proper out of the gate as a result of, after solely 19 days since international launch, the movie has reaped $1 billion worldwide. Not solely that, however Favreau additionally performed Happy for Sony’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, which crossed that very same milestone a couple of days in the past.

Back to Disney, although. In addition to MCU titles together with Endgame and Captain Marvel alongside Will Smith’s blue genie in Aladdin, The Lion King has grow to be the fourth title from the studio to cross the billion-dollar mark. We’re not even totally by means of the summer time but, and on Tuesday, the Hollywood Reporter dropped information of the remake passing $999.four million globally. Further, The Lion King will seemingly proceed to have legs till children return to highschool and oldsters search refuge in theaters in the course of the hottest weeks of the yr, so who is aware of how excessive the film shall roar.

The remainder of 2019 ought to flip up extra spectacular numbers for Disney with two extra extremely anticipated titles. Those could be Frozen 2 in November and Star Wars: Rise Of The Skywalker in December. In different phrases, Disney may break its personal 2016 document for 4 billion-dollar movies in a single yr, and there’s no signal of slowing down but. Or an finish to these live-action remakes.

(Via Hollywood Reporter & Variety)