Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is on track to pull in $40 million domestically in its opening weekend, yet Disney’s live-action remake of “The Lion King” holds onto its throne as the #1 film at the box office for a second consecutive week.
While this is the biggest-ever opening for a Tarantino film, “Once Upon a Time” landed in second place thanks to “The Lion King” pulling in $75 million domestically in its second weekend, for a two-week domestic take of more than $350 million.
As The Hollywood Reporter points out, Tarantino’s latest cost $90 million to make, the most expensive film of the director’s career — and his first without the backing of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, currently awaiting trial on charges of sexual assault.
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Meanwhile, “The Lion King” is also performing well internationally; with $612 million from foreign markets, the film is poised to break the billion-dollar mark, with a current worldwide tally of $963 million.
Rounding out the top five at the domestic box office this weekend, according to Box Office Mojo, are: “Spider-Man: Far From Home” in third place, bringing in $12.2 million in its fourth week of release, for a domestic total of $344 million; “Toy Story 4” at #4, adding $9.8 million in its sixth week for a domestic total of $395 million; and alligator horror flick “Crawl” capturing fifth place with $4 million, for a three-week total of $31.4 million.
