The Lion King live-action adaptation is ready to be king of the box office if advanced tickets sales in the last 24 hours are any indication.
Disney’s The Lion King in its first 24 hours of advance ticket sales has brought in the second best first-day sale of the year for Fandango after Avengers: Endgame while Atom Tickets is calling it the company’s best first-day sales for a family movie. The fact that it’s second to Endgame on the Fandango site shows that the box office potential for the film is huge but since this is the summer of underperforming titles, a part of me wants to proceed with caution.
In addition for Fandango, The Lion King is the ticket seller’s best first-day presales for a Disney release outside of the Star Wars or Marvel Cinematic Universe, outpacing 2017’s Beauty and the Beast, the previous record-holder. The new list of first-day Disney-live action advance ticket sellers on Fandango (outside Star Wars and MCU) are as follows: The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.
In the case of Atom Tickets, The Lion King tops a list of previous top family pre-sellers that includes Toy Story 4, Aladdin, Pokemon Detective Pikachu, and Shazam. Also for Atom, The Lion King sold four times as many tickets as Disney’s Aladdin in the same time period. The Lion King’s first 24 hours of pre-sales for Atom also outpaced that of Marvel’s Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and Ant-Man & the Wasp in the same time period.
Tickets went on sale at 6 AM PT yesterday for the live-action feature adaptation of the 1994 Disney animated film, which opens on July 19.
