No Disney movie that wasn't a 'Star Wars' story or a Marvel movie has opened as high as 'The Lion King'
opened with around $191.8 million over its domestic debut, not $185 million as was reported yesterday morning.
As you should know by now, the numbers we all dissect on Sunday morning are estimates, taken from the Friday gross, the Saturday gross and a mathematical calculation for what the film will earn on Sunday. The estimates tend to be pretty darn close to the final figures, but there can be some wiggle room in either direction when you're dealing with a massive weekend gross.
Moreover, if they can get away with it, it is in a studio's interest to undershoot the weekend estimate. That way they can get"Look how well it opened!" news coverage on Sunday and then"Wow, it opened even bigger than estimated!" coverage on Monday. For that matter, a $192 million Friday-to-Sunday gross is only 3.7% higher than a $185 million gross, so it's not like Disney severely undersold itself yesterday.
However, this does put the gross just above the $191.2 million debut weekend, in 2015, of Walt Disney'sscored the biggest"not a PG-13" opening weekend of all-time, as well as the biggest debut for an animated movie. Yes, I'm counting it as animated, and it indeed opened above the $182 million launch ofIt also scored, sans inflation, the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of July, coming in way ahead of.
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