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‘Mufasa’ Underperforms As Big Cat Has Sleepy $122M WW Start; Still Room To Grow – International Box Office
Disney’s Mufasa is not as regal as hoped in its global debut. The prequel is now looking at a $125M worldwide box office start through Sunday
The cume through three days of international box office play is $33M, which, with the domestic outlook, portends a $125M worldwide start through Sunday. But the lion is not roaring from the get-go offshore, and there is still a lot of family play to go around (ie Dis’ own Moana 2 as well as Wicked). The current through-Friday of $33M is 28% ahead of last year’s Christmas release, Wonka; and on par with Disney’s Aladdin(which ended up with magic carpet legs) on a like-for-like basis.
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