Disney’s Mufasa may have stumbled out of the gate next to Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with a domestic opening that was $35.4M to the latter’s $60M, but the lion is set to have the last roar.
This week Mufasa will pass Sonic the Hedgehog 3 at the domestic box office. Both after 45 days in theaters wound up Sunday with respective running cumes of $229.5M and $230.5M.
In the same breath, Mufasa is finally arriving on PVOD on Feb. 18 via digital retailers Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home after a 60-day theatrical window, and there in lies some of the trick to its traction at the box office. By implementing a longer window strategy, Mufasa has been able to hold key Imax and PLF screens throughout its run, exhibitors respecting long theatrical windows. Mufasa won’t hit 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD until April 1.
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 landed on PVOD on Jan. 21 after a 32-day theatrical window. On the day before its PVOD date, Jan. 20, Sonic the Hedgehog stood at $218.9M while Mufasa stood at $209.7M — $9.2M apart.
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Globally, Mufasa stands at $652M. While it’s no Lion King which cleared $1.66 billion worldwide in 2019, off a $200M production cost, the lion prequel didn’t do too bad from a P&L standpoint. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 grossed $462.5M worldwide off a $122M production cost.
Among the bonus stuff on the Blu-ray, DVD, etc for Mufasa are
-Full Length Sing-Along with on-screen lyrics.
–Finding Milele: The Making of Mufasa: The Lion King – Director Barry Jenkins and the cast chat how the story was developed and the technology used to make Mufasa’s world come to life.
–Songs of the Savanna – Jenkins and songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda sit down to discuss the making of the music.
–Ostrich Eggs with Timon & Pumbaa – The duo reveal fun facts and some of the hidden references in the movie.
Outtakes – The cast has fun in the recording booth.
Deleted Scenes:
- Who’s the Mole Rat?
- What Do You Feel in There?
- Have Faith in Her
- Taka’s Dream
Music Video: “I Always Wanted a Brother” – Miranda and the cast perform “I Always Wanted A Brother” backstage at a film shoot.
Song Selections:
- Milele (First Rain)
- I Always Wanted a Brother
- Bye Bye
- We Go Together
- Tell Me It’s You
- Brother Betrayed
Protect the Pride featurette – Disney and The Lion Recovery Fund are working to protect the pride and conserve lions in the wild.
And nobody cared about Mufasa making more money than Sonic because it did not matter and quite frankly, when you a prequel or sequel to a billion dollar film or in this case a 1.6 billion dollar film. Making 700 mill ain’t impressive in comparison even if it is profitable.
Lol, Sonic fans are the one who started all of these beef and they’re super annoying and toxic. But now you’re taking a jab at Disney (Mufasa) fans is ridiculous
As if Disney fan’s like yourself are any better… You guys fed into this bs. if you Just got off the internet circles with the Mufasa vs Sonic crap, you wouldn’t be pissed off now. But no you just have to play victim and act like Disney fan’s had zero part in the fighting when you guys clearly did. Anyways I hope you can get a grip because in the grand scheme of things both films are successful and none of this fighting matters.
Does it really matter? Does one movie making less than another mean no one is allowed to enjoy it anymore or that that they’re somehow worth less for liking it? Maybe focus more on enjoying what you like and let people enjoy what they like.
You seem confused about the website on which you are commenting. Deadline reports on the entertainment industry. One of the most critical parts of the industry is profit.
Who are you talking to?
I would hardly call $200 million more than Sonic “limping”. But okay
Uhh. Both came out around thr same time and, Sonic 3 is still in theaters. If it made a bigger impact (on just social media probably), why is it making much less than Mufasa?
You Sonic fans will say anything to try (and fail) to negate Mufasa’s success.
Hipocrite. Your telling people not to negate Mufasa’s success, while also trying to negate Sonic 3s success. Shame on you Andy