Weekly box office: Lion King sings ‘Hakuna Matata’ all the way to the top of the charts

Nants, ingonyama! Disney’s The Lion King got off to a roaring start, taking $25.5 million at the Australian box office in its opening week. Your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man was well behind, grossing $3.1 million.

Here are the top 10 films at the Australian box office, July 18 to July 24.

1. The Lion King (2019) $25,551,089
2. Spider-Man: Far From Home (Sony) $3,143,142
3. Toy Story 4 (Disney) $2,440,424
4. Yesterday (Universal) $1,133,945
5. The Secret Life of Pets 2 (Universal) $1,125,571
6. Apollo 11 (Madman) $524,927
7. Aardas karaan (Forum Films) $422,835
8. Aladdin (Disney) $407,587
9. Annabelle Comes Home (Warner Bros) $363,280
10. Crawl (Paramount) $352,340

* Estimated figures as at 1:07 PM 25/07/19. For official box-office chart, contact MPDAA