: 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.

Mufasa topped the Christmas day chart with $15 million, followed by filmmaker Robert Egger's new star-studded vampire pic Nosferatu with a promising $11.6 million and Sonic 3 with $10.7 million. A horror-fantasy,

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 "Lion King" prequel was the biggest movie in North American theaters on Xmas. See what else people watched.

Disney’s Mufasa opened far less than its predecessor and ranked below Paramount’s Sonic 3 at the US Box office.