‘Lion King’ Outraces ‘Drive’ At The Box Office
Posted by Efas 2010 Celebrity News on September 21, 2011FROM MTV MOVIES: What’s ancient was new again as Disney’s iconic “The Lion King” became the #1 show at the box office over the weekend, taking in an estimated $29.3 million with a souped-up 3-D redo of the 1994 first.
“Guide,” one of the year’s best-reviewed films, was #3 in its weekend debut, while the poorly reviewed remake of “Straw Dogs” and Sarah Jessica Parker’s even-worse-reviewed “I Don’t Know How She Does It” both flopped in their debuts. Last week’s #1 show, “Contagion,” dropped to #2 this week.
“The Lion King” 3-D re-release earned more than the other three new releases combined. The film’s first-run, IMAX re-release (back in 2002) and the past weekend’s numbers pushed “The Lion King” from #25 to #17 on the all-time domestic box-office chart, according to Box Office Mojo. The animated tale, which has also quite successfully been adapted for Broadway, has made $357.8 million in the United States to date.
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