Box Office History for The Lion King Movies
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Release Date | Title | Production Budget | Opening Weekend | Domestic Box Office | Worldwide Box Office |
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Dec 20, 2024 | Mufasa: The Lion King | ||||
Jul 19, 2019 | The Lion King | $260,000,000 | $191,770,759 | $543,638,043 | $1,646,106,779 |
Feb 10, 2004 | The Lion King 1 1/2 | ||||
Oct 27, 1998 | The Lion King II: Simba's P… | ||||
Jun 15, 1994 | The Lion King | $79,300,000 | $1,586,753 | $421,785,283 | $986,193,783 |
Averages | $169,650,000 | $96,678,756 | $482,711,663 | $1,316,150,281 | |
Totals | 5 | $339,300,000 | $965,423,326 | $2,632,300,562 |
Video Release Breakdown
Release Date | Title | Domestic Video Sales to Date | Watch Now |
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Mar 3, 1995 | The Lion King | $221,238,785 | Amazon iTunes Google Vudu |
Oct 27, 1998 | The Lion King II: Simba's Pride | $20,470,314 | Amazon iTunes Google Vudu |
Feb 10, 2004 | Lion King 1 1/2, The | $7,293,829 | Amazon iTunes Google Vudu |
Oct 4, 2011 | The Lion King Trilogy | $46,125,991 | |
Feb 23, 2016 | The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar | $2,737,334 | |
Feb 23, 2016 | The Lion Guard: Season Two | Amazon | |
Sep 20, 2016 | The Lion Guard: Unleash the Power | $387,213 | |
Jan 10, 2017 | The Lion Guard: Life in the Pride Lands | $274,296 | |
Oct 11, 2019 | The Lion King | $52,100,273 | Amazon iTunes Google Vudu |
Dec 31, 2025 | Mufasa: The Lion King | ||
Totals | $350,628,035 |
Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.
For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey.
We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.
Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.
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May 26th, 2022
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Home Market Releases for August 29th, 2017
August 29th, 2017
It’s one of those weeks that are deceptively busy. The biggest new release of the week is Wonder Woman, but it is only coming out on Video on Demand. The biggest overall release is the The Lion King franchise on separate Blu-ray releases, but it’s at least a double-dip on Blu-ray. I think a triple-dip on Blu-ray. If it weren’t for these circumstances, they would be clear Pick of the Week contenders. Without those two movies, the next best is... My Cousin Rachel on Blu-ray. Its reviews are not quite Pick of the Week level, but it is the best of what we've got.
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Home Market Releases for August 15th, 2017
August 16th, 2017
Alien: Covenant is the biggest release on this week’s list, but the franchise is off its peak and has been for a long time. As for Pick of the Week contenders, there are not a lot of them. If I were to stretch the definition, Food Wars: Season One is great, if you are into that subgenre of Anime. Descendants 2 is arguably better than the original, but the DVD isn’t going to really appeal to those outside the target audience. That leaves The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 50th Anniversary Blu-ray as the clear winner for Pick of the Week.
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Note: This list contains actors who appeared in at least two movies in the franchise.
Person | Nr. of Movies | Role | Franchise Worldwide Box Office | Career Worldwide Box Office | Franchise / Career |
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James Earl Jones | 2 | Mufasa | $2,632,300,562 | $8,863,416,900 | 29.7% |
Note: This list contains people who contributed to at least two movies in the franchise.
Person | Nr. of Movies | Technical Role | Franchise Worldwide Box Office | Career Worldwide Box Office | Franchise / Career |
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Hans Zimmer | 3 | Composer (3) | $2,632,300,562 | $35,538,668,038 | 7.4% |
Jeff Nathanson | 2 | Screenwriter (2) | $1,646,106,779 | $4,566,513,686 | 36.0% |
Irene Mecchi | 2 |
Screenwriter (1) Story based on “The Lion King” by (1) |
$2,632,300,562 | $3,776,848,437 | 69.7% |
Jonathan Roberts | 2 |
Screenwriter (1) Story based on “The Lion King” by (1) |
$2,632,300,562 | $3,049,420,442 | 86.3% |
Linda Woolverton | 2 |
Screenwriter (1) Story based on “The Lion King” by (1) |
$2,632,300,562 | $6,931,625,526 | 38.0% |
Brenda Chapman | 2 | Story Creator (2) | $2,632,300,562 | $3,407,263,931 | 77.3% |