Mufasa becomes king of the US box office, Nosferatu confirms to be biting

On the other hand, Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan continues to disappoint.

The Lion King on the throne, finally. After three weeks of fighting against a blue hedgehog, Mufasa ended up taking first place at the US box office this weekend, adding another $24 million to its North American total. An honorary place, which the prequel owes mainly to the absence of a major release at the start of the year. With $168 million in revenue across the Atlantic and $476 million worldwide, Mufasa still continues to underperform. The film cost over $200 million to produce and will almost certainly end up nowhere near the billion dollar mark of its predecessor (The Lion King live from 2019) had managed to pick up.

Moreover, the feline does even worse than Sonic 3 currently in US theaters. If SEGA’s hero drops to second place this week, it totals $187.5 million in the United States and $336 million worldwide. This third installment has already surpassed the 2020 first ($148 million US, $319 million worldwide), and is on track to surpass the 2022 sequel ($190 million US, $405 million worldwide). million dollars worldwide). The franchise Sonic has thus officially surpassed the billion dollar mark in total revenue, while awaiting the fourth film already in preparation.

Nosferatuthe remake by director Robert Eggers, retains its bite. After a successful launch, the vampire horror film remains in third place at the US box office, taking in another $13.2 million in 3,132 theaters. Totaling $70 million in the United States since Christmas Day and $100 million at the worldwide box office, the low-budget $50 million indie film is a success.

The same cannot be said for the Bob Dylan biopic. Timothée Chalamet gave of himself, but the response to Perfect Unknown is for the moment lukewarm: having fallen to only sixth place, with 8.1 million dollars in revenue, the film about the American folk legend is content with 41.7 million dollars in the United States, pending its release in the rest of the world (end of January in France). Too little for an event biopic that cost $70 million to produce.