‘Mufasa’ finally gets a weekend win over ‘Sonic 3’

Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of Jan. 3-5, 2025.

1. Mufasa: The Lion King

Weekend gross: $23.8M
Total domestic gross: $168.6M
Last weekend: 2nd
Percent drop: 35

After finishing behind Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for the past two weekends (and I guess bragging rights for barely beating Sonic over the five-day Christmas weekend?), Mufasa: The Lion King finally got a legit three-day weekend victory. Disney’s “live”-action prequel squeaked by the third Sonic movie by a little more than $2 million.

Mufasa’s domestic box office total stands at $168.6 million — which is still way less than the whopping $191.8 million that its predecessor debuted at in 2019.

2. Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Weekend gross: $21.2M
Total domestic gross: $187.5M
Last weekend: 1st
Percent drop: 43

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 had to settle for second place this weekend, but that’s only a blip of bad news for the franchise. The third Sonic movie has already passed Sonic the Hedgehog’s $146.1 million domestic haul and is just over $3 million away from matching Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s $187.5 million total.

The Sonic franchise crossed both the $500 million domestic total and $1 billion worldwide total this week too.