Elsewhere, Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown' breaks records for Searchlight as vampire pic 'Nosferatu' bites off big business for Focus Features.

Two family films are dominating the holiday box office, with “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” winning the three-day weekend over “Mufasa” by a blue hair.

Led by a near-tie between two second weekend animated franchise films, then bolstered by two unusual wide Christmas day specialized-distributor releases, U.S./Canada theaters saw their best post-holiday grosses since 2019.

Mufasa' topped the Christmas box office with $14.7 million as 'Nosferatu' and 'A Complete Unknown' opened strong with $11.5 million and $7.2 million.

That success for “Mufasa” isn’t coming at the expense of “Sonic 3,” which continues to hum along with $10.3 million on Wednesday. The video game adaptation now has $88 million domestic and should reach $125-130 million by Sunday as it begins its overseas rollout.

The holiday box office is winding down this weekend as “Mufasa: The Lion King” and “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” continue to lead charts and draw family audiences before schools go back in session. Though “Mufasa” was above “Sonic 3” across much of the holiday weekdays,

The good news that multiple films enjoyed at the end of 2024 continued at the start of 2025, as Disney's "Mufasa" extended its Christmas rebound to claim the No. 1 spot for the year's first weekend. In its third weekend in theaters,