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MadGez
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Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:54 am Posts: 22704 Location: Melbourne Australia
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Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
Disney have announced the "live action" Mufasa a prequel to The Lion King will be released in 2024 (assuming summer). https://comicbookmovie.com/disney/mufas ... #gs.bzc9qnPredictions? I think this is a much better idea than the blah remake of the 1994 original. Mufasa is probably everybody's favourite part of TLK so I suspect this could post some serious numbers. Not sure how badly the 2019 version will hurt it, but numbers should still be robust.
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Sun Sep 11, 2022 6:18 am |
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zwackerm
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
200m if it sucks. If it’s good 300m+
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Sun Sep 11, 2022 1:41 pm |
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Mau
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Joined: Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:42 pm Posts: 16901 Location: Monterrey, Mexico
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
zwackerm wrote: 200m if it sucks. If it’s good 300m+ Yeah, no. This has $400mil+ written all over it.
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Cynosure
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
I'd be somewhat interested in an animated version, but as far as a live action goes I'll have to pass.
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publicenemy#1
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:25 am Posts: 18905 Location: San Diego
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
An animated prequel would be cool. "Live action"... lol
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 67066
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
The 2019 remake made over $500 million, so this will easily be huge as well. Obviously nobody has a problem with live-action. It will do over $300 million with ease.
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Rev
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Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:06 am Posts: 32120 Location: the last free city
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
I can't wait for this didn't notice it was a prequel I trust in Barry Jenkins to make a better movie than Favreau's 2019 remake. That one had no fucking JOY/MAGIC at all. I did not feel the love tonight and I definitely didn't not have Hakuna Matata.
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zwackerm
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
I’m thinking for this about a 50m OW and 280m total.
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Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:39 am |
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Shack
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
Trailer is mainly "Did you like the visual effects in the first one... Do you want to watch them again?"
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Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:33 am |
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zwackerm
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
The december move was smart. in July I could've seen sub 200m if it dropped similarly to Alice or Maleficent 2 which seems likely.
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Mon Apr 29, 2024 12:37 pm |
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neo_wolf
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
Sonic 3 is gonna beat it.
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Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:12 pm |
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 67066
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
Naysayers!
I reckon this is going to do massively again. $300m+
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Steve
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Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:09 pm Posts: 1809
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
I’m just a single data point, but for what it’s worth— I had no interest in seeing The Lion King (2019) because I’ve seen the original and it can’t be topped. The ‘live action’ looked like and was a blatant cash grab rehash. This one I’m more likely to see because it’s a new story. I think the appeal of “originality” here will outweigh some of the inherent drop off from an overperforming Disney remake that came out when Disney was red hot.
Depends on how it lands with the public but it could end up being a $400m holiday smash. The move to Christmas might prove to be very clever indeed, I could see it filling the Avatar / Jumanji etc. family-friendly spectacle slot.
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Steve
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
unrelated side note, I was today years old when something clicked and I realized that “Mufasa” was King of Pride Rock and Simba’s dad, NOT his evil uncle Scar! I don’t know why anytime I saw the title of this movie I thought they were making a Scar origin story, for some reason. this is obviously a better idea.
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Shack
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
The story potential would actually be really good between the nobody rising to power to be king + Godfather II double structure, I just don't expect Disney in this era to do anything but the safest route.
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O
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
The IP just has so much value but they really left a lukewarm taste with the last film.
Lion King 1994 adjusted: $999,438,120 Lion King 2019 adjusted: $676,289,854
The retention was still 2/3 the original. 2.835X multiplier for an understandably anticipated film.
Could lose 63% of its audience from 2019 and it would still be at $250M+. Add in Christmas holidays that are ultra generous to family films and it would seem like it could be a wildcard on the upside.
Fairly light Christmas season right now so feels like Mufasa and Sonic will clean up. It could be the quietest $400M+ box office run ever. $400M over the holidays isn't that unreachable anymore.
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Thegun
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Re: Mufasa (Lion King Prequel) Predictions
I mean even the DTV sequels did 300+ million, and they were terrible, the live action was fine enough for kids, I wouldn’t be surprised even if it did better than the original with kids out in a dead Christmas
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