There were admittedly probably zero people in the word who thought that Maleficent: Mistress of Evil was going to make anywhere near as much as either Jon Favreau’s The Lion King ($191.7 million) or Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin ($91.5 million) did in their opening frames, but one would have at least expected it to make more than Tim Burton’s Dumbo.
Certainly also not helping its image is how the release compares to the slew of other Disney movies we’ve seen this year based on the studio’s classic animated properties.
That movie was able to only bring in $46 million during its opening weekend, which was considered a huge disappointment, and so another release making $10 million less than that is definitely bad news.