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

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[img]http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/movies/l/lion_king_3d/281x211.jpg[/img][url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1670943/lion-king-3d-box-office.jhtml"][b]FROM MTV MOVIES:[/b][/url] What's old was new again as Disney's iconic "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/90216/moviemain.jhtml"]The Lion King[/url]" became the #1 movie at the box office over the weekend, taking in an estimated $29.3 million with a souped-up 3-D redo of the 1994 original.

"[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/469958/moviemain.jhtml"]Drive[/url]," one of the year's best-reviewed films, was #3 in its weekend debut, while the poorly reviewed remake of "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/409958/moviemain.jhtml"]Straw Dogs[/url]" and Sarah Jessica Parker's even-worse-reviewed "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/471125/moviemain.jhtml"]I Don't Know How She Does It[/url]" both flopped in their debuts. Last week's #1 movie, "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/455976/moviemain.jhtml"]Contagion[/url]," dropped to #2 this week.

"The Lion King" 3-D re-release earned more than the other three new releases combined. The film's original-run, IMAX re-release (back in 2002) and the past weekend's numbers pushed "The Lion King" from #25 to #17 on the all-time domestic box-office chart, according to [url="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3274&p=.htm"]Box Office Mojo[/url]. The animated tale, which has also quite successfully been adapted for Broadway, has made $357.8 million in the United States to date.

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