Disney acquired a fact-check on the social media platform X when it falsely declared Mufasa, prequel to The Lion King, the “#1 film in America” over Sonic 3.
As Breitbart Information chronicled all through December, the third sequel within the Sonic film franchise continued to dominate the field workplace, commonly beating out Mufasa, a prequel to a beloved IP.
Within the vacation season battle of big-budget household films, Paramount Photos’ “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” sped previous the Walt Disney Co.’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” to take the highest spot on the field workplace forward of the profitable Christmas hall in theaters.
“Sonic the Hedgehog 3” debuted with $62 million in ticket gross sales over the weekend, in keeping with studio estimates. With robust opinions (86% recent on Rotten Tomatoes) and a excessive rating from audiences (an “A” on CinemaScore), “Sonic 3” is properly positioned to be the best choice in cinemas throughout the busiest moviegoing interval of the 12 months.
It was telling of some wider developments that “Sonic 3” — made for $122 million — bested one in every of Disney’s prime properties. Videogame diversifications, as soon as among the many most derided film genres, have emerged as one of the reliable field workplace forces in recent times. The 2 earlier “Sonic” films collectively grossed extra $700 million worldwide and the third installment seems more likely to do higher than each of them. A fourth “Sonic” film is already in improvement.
Regardless of these sobering numbers for Mufasa, Walt Disney Studios nonetheless determined to declare it the “#1 film in America” on its official X account, which acquired a fact-check from neighborhood notes.
“Mufasa: The Lion King is now the #1 film in America, and the #1 film on this planet, two weeks in a row! See it now, solely in theaters!” declared Walt Disney Studios.
“That’s not true. Sonic 3 remains to be the #1 film in America,” X neighborhood notes responded earlier than sharing a hyperlink to field workplace studies on IMDB.
Sonic 3 additionally acquired typically extra favorable opinions from critics with a stunning 88 % score on Rotten Tomatoes whereas Mufasa solely acquired a tepid 55 %.
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