'Lion King' Outraces 'Drive' Within The Box Office

FROM MTV MOVIES: What's old was new again as Disney's legendary "The Lion King" increased being the #1 movie within the box office in the last weekend, consuming an thought $29.3 million getting a souped-up 3-D redo in the 1994 original. "Drive," one of the year's best-examined films, was #3 within the weekend debut, because the poorly examined remake of "Hay Dogs" and Sarah Jessica Parker's even-worse-examined "I am Unsure How She'll ItInch both flopped inside their debuts. Last week's #1 movie, "Contagion," dropped to #2 now. "The Lion King" 3-D re-release acquired greater than another three new releases combined. The film's original-run, IMAX re-release (in 2002) as well as the past weekend's amounts pressed "The Lion King" from #25 to #17 round the all-time domestic box-office chart, according to Box Office Mojo. The animated tale, which has also quite effectively been modified for Broadway, makes $357.8 million within the united states . States so far. See the full story at MTV Movies!