The Mouse House is having a hell of a weekend.
After Saturday’s massive Marvel Studios panel at San Diego Comic-Con, where the studio announced almost a dozen projects over the next two years, Disney went ahead and earned the top 3 spots at the domestic box office, led by an absolutely huge debut from Jon Favreau’s “The Lion King.”Before ‘Lion King,’ the best opening ever for July occurred back in 2011 when “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” debuted with a domestic total of $169 million.Continue reading ‘Lion King’ Shatters The July Record On Its Way To A $531 Million Total [Box Office] at The Playlist.
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