August Box Office

Lion King 2019 falls from the top of the box office while Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ascends. (And I'm getting this up a wee bit late).

THREE DAYS OF GROSSES

1) Hobbs & Shaw -- 4,253 -- $60.8M -- $60.8M (1st weekend)

2) The Lion King -- 4,802 (+77) -- $38.2M (-50%) -- $430.9M

3) Once Upon A Time In Hollywood -- 3,659 -- $20M (-51%) -- $78.8M

4) Spideram: Far From Home -- 3,446 (-405) -- $7.7M (-38%) -- $360.3M

5) Toy Story 4 -- 3,225 (-385) -- $7.1M (-32%) -- $410M

6) Yesterday -- 1,837 (-713) -- $2.44M (-21%) -- $67.9M

7) The Farewell -- 409 (+274) -- $2.43M (+60%) $6.8M

8) Crawl -- 2,085 (-635) -- $2.1Md (-47%) -- $36M

9) Aladdin -- 1,370 (-428) -- $2M (-34%) -- $350.3M

10) Annabelle 3 -- $875K (-44%) -- $71.6M

And how is animation ... also live-action with generous gobs of animation ... doing on a worldwide basis? Some random samples:

GLOBAL GROSSES

Lion King -- $1.2 billion

The Secret Life of Pets 2 -- 345 million

Toy Story 4 -- $949 billion

Spiderman: Far From Home -- $1.08 billion

Aladdin 2019 -- $1.03 billion

Avengers: Endgame -- $2.8 billion

Put all the above together and it's clear that the House of Mouse is doing very, very well.