Disney’s photo-realistic animated adaptation of The Lion King has surpassed another box office milestone to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time.
The Lion King earned another $20.2 million at the domestic box office in its fourth frame in theaters, bringing its domestic total to $473.3 million and its worldwide total to $1.337 billion.
That total surpasses Disney’s 2012 blockbuster Frozen ($1.276 billion) as the highest-grossing animated film ever, but the studio doesn’t even consider it an animated film.
Box office analysts, Exhibitor Relations tweeted on Sunday that Disney viewed The Lion King’s total as passing a much different record.
Disney stated that The Lion King ($1.335B) passed Beauty and the Beast ($1.264B) to become “the highest grossing Disney live action release of all-time,” ERC’s senior media analyst Jeff Bock said.
Disney stated that THE LION KING ($1.335B) passed BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ($1.264B) to become "the highest grossing Disney live action release of all-time." Um. So this was live-action? Semantics aside, that's an incredible feat.
— Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) August 11, 2019
The Lion King is a 2019 American computer-animated musical film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, written by Jeff Nathanson, and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a photorealistic computer animated remake of Disney’s traditionally animated 1994 film of the same name.
The film stars the voices of Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alfre Woodard, Billy Eichner, John Kani, John Oliver, and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, as well as James Earl Jones reprising his role from the original film.
The plot follows Simba, a young lion who must embrace his role as the rightful king of his native land following the murder of his father, Mufasa, at the hands of his uncle, Scar.
It was released in theaters on the 19th of July 2019.
