Only question is which will make more for Disney next year:
Lion King or avengers 4.
That’s actually a serious question. Both have billion dollar potential for sure. We also have episode 9 that could be up there as well.
A good question - but when you break it down I don't think it'll be close.
Avengers has the bigger international appeal. Not to say Lion King won't do well overseas, but comparables:
Avengers 1 = #6 All-time World BO $1.51 Bil
Avengers 2 = #8 All-time World BO $1.40 Bil
Avengers 3 = #4 All-time World BO $2.05 Bil
Avengers 4 will likely appeal at LEAST as big as 3 - So let's call it $2 Bil. Quite likely more.
Lion King comparable? Beauty & the Beast did $1.26 Bil (#14 all-time) - the best of the revivals. Jungle Book did < $1 Bil, Alice in Wonderland about $1 Bil taking advantage of the Avatar wave. After that we drop to Maleficent at $780 million.
I think the Lion King is in that higher range - probably at the high end similar to B&tB, but if we give it a generous $1.3 Bil, that still brings it up $700 million short of the Avengers movie. Episode 9 is the bigger threat - but realistically I think that Avengers still wins.
Oh - and we should point out with the release of the trailer, they've moved the release date up to April 26th. I think most other releases were expecting this - they did the same last year with Infinity War - but could lead to some shuffling of releases in April. (Already no major release on 4/26 and 4/19 so likely already anticipated.)
With the release of this trailer can we finally say any spoiler concerns for Infinity War are officially at an end? The trailer spells out exactly what happened if anyone didn't see it.
