By: Keaton Marcus

Diving into the weekend, Disney’s The Lion King remake easily topped the box office once again, dropping hard, but continuing it’s strong domestic and international performance—the film has now made it in to the top five domestic films this year. Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood delivered a strong runner-up debut, and earned an opening weekend record for the masterful filmmaker. Following the two leaders, holdovers such as Spider-Man: Far from Home, Toy Story 4, and Crawl populated the last few spots in the top five.

Disney’s live-action remake of The Lion King topped the box office once again with an estimated 75.5M in domestic ticket sales, and while it’s totals are impressive, the Disney production plummeted 60.6% from last weekend, for a North American domestic total of 350.7M after 10 days in release. Despite the drop, the re-imagining is pacing around 31 million ahead of Beauty and the Beast, which finished with 504M domestically, however, the dip was the biggest of the Disney live-action re-imaginings, and it’s finish will be told over the next few weekends.

Internationally, the 260M production earned another 142.8M, for an overseas total of 611.9M, and a global tally of 962.6M. The film currently ranks fifth globally in the Disney live-action remakes, around four million behind the re-take of The Jungle Book, this week, the film should easily top the one billion mark, along with a few other Disney productions that already have. The production has yet to be released in Japan on August 9th, and Italy on August 21st.

In runner-up position, Sony’s release of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood earned an estimated 40.3M in ticket sales, crumbling the original 30-35M pre-weekend expectations. Debuting in 3,659 locations, the R-rated comedic drama averaged $11,028 per-screen, and delivered the biggest three-day for the director yet, topping Inglourious Basterds (38M). Not only that, but the impressive debut puts the 90M production in line for the fourth 100M+ Tarantino film, in fact, we are thinking a finish of around 115M.

Sony took third place too with Marvel’s Spider-Man: Far from Home, which added another 12.2M domestically for a North American total of 344.4M heading into it’s fourth week of release. To go along with the domestic success, the superhero picture also earned another 21M overseas for a foreign gross of 692.4M, resulting in a massive global total of 1.036B, becoming the ninth MCU production to top the one billion mark.

Fourth place holds Disney and Pixar’s collaboration of Toy Story 4, which obtained another 9.8M at the domestic charts, tallying to a nationwide total of 395.6M, and will hopefully be able to top the 400M mark by the end of the week. Otherwise, the children’s film added an impressive 19.4M overseas for a foreign total of 522.3M, and a worldwide bout of 917.9M. It is still a question on whether the film can duke it out for a worldwide finish topping one billion.

Rounding out the top five was Paramount’s release of Crawl, which slid just 34.4% for a third weekend of 4M, resulting in a domestic total of 31.4M heading towards its third week of release. Internationally, the gore-fest delivered another 3.4M overseas for a foreign running gross of 14.4M, and a global total of 45.8M.

Along with Marvel’s Far from Home, Disney’s remake of Aladdin finally topped the billion mark this weekend, becoming the third Disney live-action reimagining to do so. The film has earned 345.9M domestically, along with 663.8M foreignly for a global bout of 1.009B.

Next weekend, we see another additional nationwide release heading to top the box office over the reign of The Lion King. Universal’s release of a Fast & Furious franchise spin-off dubbed Hobbs & Shaw is hitting the weekend in an estimated 4,200 locations, and is already predicted for a 60-70M North American debut.

TOP FIVE:

The Lion King (2019)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Spider-Man: Far from Home
Toy Story 4
Crawl