{"id":1631,"date":"2019-07-31T10:13:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T10:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2019-07-31T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T10:13:40","slug":"the-lion-king-hits-1bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/the-lion-king-hits-1bn\/tv-and-films\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion King Hits $1Bn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disney have been on a role this year, having four of their best movies making $1bn in worldwide box office sales. The Lion King was released back in 1995 but was remade by Disney this year and after only being in cinemas for 3 weeks, it&#8217;s managed to achieve over $1bn in box office sales. Better than anyone would have hoped for. Some fans were a bit sceptical about The Lion King being remade and made into reality instead of animation, however they managed to make it a roaring success, as some critics say.<\/p>\n<p>The other movies that Disney managed to get over the $1bn worldwide sales marks are Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel and Aladdin. Disney\u2019s class of 2019. In North America alone, the sales racked up to around $361m (\u00a3267m) and $638m (\u00a3324m) overseas. The Lion King will always be a massive hit; however, the music is what made this show a massive hit as well. Right now, three of the Lion King songs are in the US top charts, which was created by Beyonc\u00e9!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1632 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_564253519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_564253519.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_564253519-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_564253519-768x599.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney have been on a role this year, having four of their best movies making $1bn in worldwide box office sales. The Lion King was released back in 1995 but was remade by Disney this year and after only being in cinemas for 3 weeks, it&#8217;s managed to achieve over $1bn in box office sales&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-and-films"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}