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The Lion King(2019)
Released
2019 · FILM

The Lion King

A young lion prince must reclaim his rightful throne after his treacherous uncle usurps the kingdom, confronting betrayal and his own doubts to restore balance to the Pride Lands.

“The king has returned.”

Directed by
Jon Favreau
Written by
Jeff Nathanson, Irene Mecchi
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
118 min
AdventureAnimationDrama

Synopsis

Simba looks up to his father, King Mufasa, and embraces his own future as a ruler. However, not all members of the kingdom welcome the new cub.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 33

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Adam GerstelShot by Caleb DeschanelScored by Hans ZimmerDesigned by James Chinlund

Box Office

2019 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.66B

Budget$260.0M
Worldwide gross$1.66B
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $543.6M — 33% of worldwide · International: $1.12B (67%)

Opening weekend: $191.8M — 35% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $275.3M — 51% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4,725 theaters

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Also known as

  • Der König der Löwende
  • El rey leónes
  • Le Roi lionfr
  • Il re leoneit

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