"Sonic the Hedgehog 3" and "Mufasa: The Lion King" Everett Collection THURSDAY UPDATE: Mufasa may have entered this holiday season as a lamb, but he remembered who he was on Christmas Day ...

By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer It looks like there are two Christmas winners. Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King and Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 both get to claim bragging rights to ...

The close race between the “Sonic” sequel and “Lion King” prequel is different by other gauges. Released five days prior to Christmas, “Mufasa” leads $64 million to $59 million.

Two family films dominated the holiday box office this week, with “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” winning the three-day weekend over ...

and it happened again on Christmas Day as Disney’s “Mufasa” is rebounding from a weak $35 million opening weekend to take the No. 1 spot on the Wednesday charts from Paramount’s “Sonic ...

"Mufasa: The Lion King" gets middling initial result. Almodóvar's 'The Room Next Door' also opens well in limited. Few weekends annually are less certain indices of future grosses than the one ...

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 became the highest grossing film during pre-Christmas week against Disney’s hyped-up prequal, Mufasa: The Lion King. The Paramount Pictures animated movie, which received ...

By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer It looks like there are two Christmas winners. Both titles opened last weekend, with Sonic 3 becoming an instant crowd-pleaser and handily beating Mufasa.

Two family films dominated the holiday box office this week, with “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” winning ... But when the Christmas holiday falls on a Wednesday as it did this year, the studios ...