Box Office Round-Up ~ 1/22/25

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While Mufasa: The Lion King won the weekend, a new comedy gave it a run for its money. One of Them Days, starring Keke Palmer and SZA, grossed $11.8 million to land in second place, just a hair short of Mufasa’s $12 million (which, incidentally, put it past $200 million overall, as expected). It’s a surprise success, and a rare one for a comedy, a genre that doesn’t often reach the top of the charts. (In no small part thanks to most mid-budget comedies going straight to streaming these days.)

Wolf Man took third place with a disappointing $10.8 million. It’s another setback for Universal’s classic monsters (aka the Dark Universe), which seemed to have finally found its footing with 2020’s The Invisible Man but has since underperformed with the likes of The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Abigail. Universal has multiple other monster reboots in development, and they’re making the Dark Universe one of the major features of Universal Studios Orlando’s Epic Universe expansion, but once again the cinematic future of the Universal Monsters is uncertain.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 took fourth place with $8.6 million, which Den of Thieves 2: Pantera moved from first to fifth on the charts in its second weekend, grossing $6.5 million for $26 million overall in the U.S.

1.  Mufasa: The Lion King ($12 MM)
Director: Barry Jenkins (CAA)
Writers: Jeff Nathanson (UTA)
Cast: Aaron Pierre (WME)
        Kelvin Harrison Jr. (WME)
      Tiffany Boone (CAA)

2.  One of Them Days ($11.8 MM)
Director: Lawrence Lamont (ColorCreative)
Writers: Syreeta Singleton (UTA)
Cast: Keke Palmer (3 Arts Entertainment)
        SZA (WME)
      Lil Rel Howery (UTA) 

3.  Wolf Man ($10.8 MM)
Director: Leigh Whannell (CAA)
Writers: Leigh Whannell (CAA), Corbett Tuck
Cast: Julia Garner (UTA)
      Christopher Abbott (WME)
Matilda Firth (Paradigm)

4.  Sonic the Hedgehog 3 ($8.6 MM)
Director: Jeff Fowler (WME)
Writers: Pat Casey (CAA), Josh Miller (CAA), John Whittington (Verve)
Cast: Jim Carrey (WME)
      Ben Schwartz (CAA)
Keanu Reeves (WME) 

5.  Den of Thieves 2: Pantera ($6.5 MM)
Director: Christian Gudegast (Entertainment 360)
Writers: Christian Gudegast (Entertainment 360)
Cast: Gerard Butler (CAA)
        O'Shea Jackson Jr. (WME)
      Evin Ahmad (Verve)

Source: Box Office Mojo, The Numbers