Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More 
Furthering Disney’s domination, Jon Favreau’s The Lion King opened to a record-breaking $185 million at the North American box office over the weekend for an early global total of $531 million. The movie scored the biggest domestic launch ever for a PG film, and the ninth-biggest for any movie, not to mention notching a record for a Disney release outside of Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm, not adjusted for inflation. It also bested the final Harry Potter pic ($169.2 million) to land the top start for a July title.
The top 12 movies of the weekend, as of Sunday, July 21, are as follows:
| # | Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | Cume Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lion King, The | Disney | $185,000,000 | 4,725 | $39,153 | $185,000,000 |
| 2 | Spider-Man: Far From Home | Sony | $21,000,000 | 4,415 | $4,757 | $319,659,412 |
| 3 | Toy Story 4 | Disney | $14,600,000 | 3,750 | $3,893 | $375,533,349 |
| 4 | Crawl | Paramount | $6,000,000 | 3,170 | $1,893 | $23,834,810 |
| 5 | Yesterday | Universal | $5,100,000 | 2,662 | $1,916 | $57,596,465 |
| 6 | Stuber | 20th Century Fox | $4,000,000 | 3,050 | $1,311 | $16,081,864 |
| 7 | Aladdin | Disney | $3,800,000 | 2,105 | $1,805 | $340,040,714 |
| 8 | Annabelle Comes Home | Warner Bros. | $2,660,000 | 1,981 | $1,343 | $66,582,201 |
| 9 | Midsommar | A24 | $1,599,155 | 1,105 | $1,447 | $22,482,183 |
| 10 | Secret Life Of Pets 2, The | Universal | $1,530,000 | 1,380 | $1,109 | $151,551,165 |
| 11 | Avengers: Endgame | Disney | $1,199,000 | 985 | $1,217 | $854,216,193 |
| 12 | Farewell, The | A24 | $1,171,570 | 35 | $33,473 | $1,674,997 |
