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‘The Lion King’ Shatters Broadway Record

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 9, 2012 @ 1:17pm PDTTags: Disney, The Lion King
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While Julie Taymor’s stature on Broadway has diminished after Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, this will make her feel better. Disney’s The Lion King has just roared past The Phantom of the Opera to become Broadway’s all-time top grossing show. The Lion King, which opened November 1997, has done a cumulative gross of $853,846,062 over 753 weeks, while The Phantom of the Opera, which opened January, 1988, and has a cumulative gross of $853,122,062 over 1264 weeks. During the run of The Lion King, 514 shows have come and gone on Broadway and The Lion King usually finishes first or second on the revenue charts ever week, remarkable for a show well past its 14th year. Only five shows have run longer on Broadway: A Chorus Line, Cats, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera and Chicago, and all of them were way down from being the top grossing weekly show at this point in their runs. I can remember how involved Disney was in the clean-up of 42nd Street and the campaign to transform that seedy area. With both The Lion King and Mary Poppins packing them in, it has worked out pretty well for everyone but the hookers, pimps, pervs and the drug crowd that had to find other places to peddle their wares.

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Disney Ramping Up 3D Toon Re-Releases

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 4, 2011 @ 12:01pm PDTTags: Beauty and the Beast, Disney, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid

Disney has seen the 3D light following the success of its re-release of The Lion King in the extra dimension, announcing today limited theatrical releases for four more of its animated films: Beauty and the Beast (January 13, 2012), Pixar’s … Read More »

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Disney Sets Date For 3D ‘The Lion King’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 26, 2011 @ 9:52am PDTTags: 3D, John Carter of Mars, Release Dates, The Lion King, Walt Disney Studios

Disney will release a 3D version of its classic 1994 animated blockbuster The Lion King on Sept. 16, 2011, the studio announced today. It follows the trend of high-profile library fare getting extra-dimensional face-lifts (the studio upgraded its first two Toy Story films ahead of Toy Story 3), the latest being … Read More »

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3D Blu-ray Disc Sales To Soar: 5.7 Million?

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday April 15, 2011 @ 1:05pm PDTTags: 3D, Beauty and the Beast, Blu-ray, Harry Potter, Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 1, Harry Potter Movies, The Lion King, Tron

There’s still not a lot of 3D programming on cable or broadcast to satisfy those first buyers of 3D televisions. But IHS Screen Digest says today that the technology is about to find a real foothold among fans of Blu-ray discs. … Read More »

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