Weekend Box Office: ‘Hobbs and Shaw’ Dominates with $60.8 Million, Lion King Has Officially Made Over 1 Billion at the Global Box Office
As predicted, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw won big time while tons of Disney fare, including the live-action remake The Lion King, helped fill in the remaining top slots.
The Fast & Furious franchise spin-off starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham knocked it out of the park during its opening weekend. After raking in a solid $23.7 million domestically at the Friday box office, the movie added close to another $40 million to its domestic box office coffers, hitting a $60.8 million total. The final total not only smashed through box office predictions from earlier in the week but proves to be a promising start to a theatrical run for the ninth movie in a nearly 20-year-old franchise. I’m willing to be those big box office bucks are thanks to an eagerness from audiences to see the banter between Johnson and Statham as well as some physics-defying stunts take place on the big screen.
Disney has yet another banner weekend with four films released by either them or Marvel Studios holding many of the top 10 spots this weekend. Live-action remake The Lion King continues to be a high earner, coming in at number two domestically with another $38.2 million earned. The movie’s success is all the more jaw-dropping when revealed in made double this in international markets, pulling in $72 million overseas.
The Lion King is already out-performing a decent chunk of the other Disney live-action remakes, including the ninth place movie this week: Aladdin. Just to compare, when Aladdin was in its fourth week back in late June it had only pocketed $17.3 million domestically. The movie did far better overseas at that time and continues to do so now with $4 million earned abroad in August. Meanwhile, Spider-Man: Far From Home and Toy Story 4 continue to perform admirably. These movies respectively earning $7.76 million and $7.2 million, putting them at numbers four and five in the rankings.
