New 'Lion King' soars at box office

A photorealistic version of the animated 1994 musical, "The Lion King" was met with mixed reception with an A CinemaScore and a 55 per cent "rotten" rating on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.
Disney's grosses have accounted for roughly 35 per cent of the year's domestic ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo, not counting the Fox films it has distributed. In fact, the studio has been behind four of the top five movies at the global box office this year: "Captain Marvel," "Aladdin," "Toy Story 4" and "Avengers: Endgame," which surpassed "Avatar" on Saturday as the top-grossing global release of all time with 2.79 billion dollars. The fifth, Sony's "Spider-Man: Far From Home," was co-produced by Disney's Marvel Studios.
"Far From Home" finished in second place for the weekend, adding 21 million dollars in its third weekend for a cumulative 319.7 million dollars.
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