: Update for more analysis ….Mufasa may have entered this holiday season as a lamb, but he remembered who he was on Christmas Day, as Disney’s lion prequel rebounded at the box office with $14.7M to Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s $10.

Disney’s “ Mufasa: The Lion King ” roared to the top of the U.K.-Ireland box office in its debut weekend with £4.4 million ($5.5 million), according to numbers from Comscore through Dec. 23.

Folie à Deux, but Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King fell significantly short of expectations in its domestic box office debut, and was beaten to the number one spot by Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in a pre-Christmas face-off.