: It’s a better first weekend of the year than last year with Disney’s Mufasa and Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 continuing their tussle into their third frames, $23M-$24M to $20M. In regards to 3-day weekends,

Mufasa: The Lion King has already entered Rs. 100 Cr club swiftly in India and the Disney movie is looking forward to crossing another milestone by hitting Rs. 150 Cr mark.

Mufasa: The Lion King has been released in Hindi and Telugu as well. Shah Rukh Khan voiced Mufasa in the Hindi version, his elder son Aaryan Khan voiced Simba and the superstar’s youngest AbRam voiced Mufasa as a cub.

The follow-up movie to the 2019 live action remake of The Lion King has put in a solid performance at the box office so far.

Mufasa: The Lion King managed to beat Sonic the Hedgehog 3 at the domestic box office on New Year’s Day. Mufasa: The Lion King, which serves as a prequel to the 2019 The Lion King movie, brought in an additional $10.

Having staged something of a comeback during the Christmas week — a historically lucrative period at the box office — Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King passed a couple of important milestones both domestically and worldwide this weekend.

Nosferatu crossed the $50 million mark on New Year’s Day, marking a significant box-office milestone and becoming director Robert Eggers highest-grossing film to date. The horror flick surpassed The Northman,

Two family films are dominating the holiday box office, with “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” winning the three-day weekend over “Mufasa” by a blue hair.

R-rated movie NOSFERTU made $40.3 million in its first five days, and A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, also rated R, made nearly three times less than MUFASA and SONIC in its first five days at $23.2 million.

Mufasa: The Lion King's New Year's Day offers hope for it overtaking Sonic the Hedgehog 3 as No. 1 at the box office after their first two weekends.