Box Office Week: The Lion King (2019) opens to a massive $185M domestic and $531M worldwide. It's a great weekend for Disney as now Avengers: Endgame has officially passed Avatar at the highest grossing film worldwide with $2.79B.

Rank	Title	Domestic Gross (Weekend)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #	Percentage Change	Budget
1	The Lion King (2019)	$185,000,000	$531,000,000	1	N/A	$260M
2	Spider-Man: Far from Home	$21,000,000	$970,759,412	3	-53.7%	$160M
3	Toy Story 4	$14,600,000	$859,433,349	5	-30.3%	$200M
4	Crawl	$6,000,000	$33,734,810	2	-50.0%	$13.5M
5	Yesterday	$5,100,000	$98,196,465	4	-24.0%	$26M

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Notable Box Office Stories

• The Lion King (2019) - I'm starting to think this here Disney company is on to something, as for the fifth straight week a film of theirs has been at #1 as "newcomer" The Lion King (2019) takes the spot with a massive $185M domestic opening. While Disney won't say Lion King (2019) an animated film because of some kind of weird cowardice, it's a goddamn computer animated film which means it beat The Incredibles 2 for the biggest ever animation opening. It also topped Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2's record as the biggest July opening. The film is an interesting beast, the most expensive of the Disney remakes and a whole new kind of filmmaking where the entire film was shot and directed in digital spaces with the use of VR. While critics were not as enthralled with the shot for shot hyper real style, audiences seem to be more down as it opened huge domestic, overseas (including $100M+ so far in China), and scored an excellent A rating on Cinemascore so I think critics will once again matter very little for this film.
• The Lion King (2019) (cont.) - It's been a very very good summer for Disney and pretty much no one else. While Universal is hoping to end strong with Hobbs and Shaw it's been a rough road for franchises that aren't from da mouse house. Just look at the current top 5 with its top 3 coming from the same studio. Or the five week run at #1. Or that two of its films, Aladdin and Far From Home, will probably cross $1B by next weekend. Or that Avengers: Endgame just became the highest grossing film of all time worldwide (see below). It's just been an insane moment for them. So the question becomes of course is this just the new norm, Disney box office domination with little other competition or a weird blip. One issue is that eventually this sweet spot of Disney Renaissance movies to remake will run dry and they'll have to try bigger risks (Dark Crystal live action series you cowards!) or I dunno reboot again? Neither option really seems feasible. Then there's Star Wars taking a hiatus and the guaranteed money train of Pixar sequels is ending for now. There's a sense that this could be Disney's peak but if it is it's more the top of a very gradual slope. Not to mention Disney+ is coming for your children and you cannot escape it.
• Avengers: Endgame - It's perhaps fitting that to start off their Marvel Direct showcase the producers first began by announcing that Avengers: Endgame finally surpassed Avatar to become the highest grossing film worldwide with $2.79B. Because the lineup of that presentation could only come from a studio confident they can just print money at every turn and their wild pitches like a horror Doctor Strange or a Lady Thor movie could only come from that well deserved arrogance. Endgame shot out like a rocket when it first opened but after that initial massive push, it became a game of inches over miles as it slowly crept towards that sweet record. The biggest help was of course a big re-release which only added a few DVD bonus level additions but that scored enough to finally push the film over the edge. And frankly I think both Avatar and Endgame deserved it. Avatar was a bold unique vision (yeah yeah get your Pocahontas jokes out, they definitely haven't gotten stale in 10 years) and for an original film to hold that title for a decade is quite impressive. And Endgame would only work that well if Marvel had been that precise and calculated with their brand management. Need I bring up another superhero team up that flopped horrible? Just because a film with all the heroes in it exists doesn't mean it will justify a huge payday. So here we are, with a dozen MCU films and shows on the horizon and Endgame taking its place at the top for a few short months until Cats makes $3B and marks the beginning of the end times.

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Films Reddit Wants to Follow

This is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.

Title	Domestic Gross (Weekly)	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget	Week #
Avengers: Endgame	$3,509,054	$854,216,193	$2,790,216,193	$356M	13
Pokémon Detective Pikachu	$300,087	$143,531,247	$429,531,247	$150M	11
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum	$2,067,511	$168,891,227	$318,291,227	$55M	10
Aladdin	$10,623,994	$340,040,714	$988,840,714	$183M	9
Dark Phoenix	$293,174	$65,359,540	$251,772,540	$200M	7

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Notable Film Closings

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget
Ma	$45,373,120	$60,173,120	$5M
A Dog's Journey	$22,546,590	$67,146,590	$100M

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Submitted July 22, 2019 at 10:26PM by mi-16evil https://ift.tt/2YdALMY