‘Lion King’ Stays No. 1 as ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Aims for Tarantino Box Office Record

It’s a good weekend at the box office for franchise blockbusters and original auteur-driven films alike. While Disney’s “The Lion King” will stay No. 1 at the box office in its second weekend, Sony’s “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” is off to a solid start with $16.8 million grossed on its opening day from 3,659 theaters. Quentin Tarantino’s ode to Sharon Tate and a bygone era of Hollywood is now estimated to earn an opening weekend of $40.2 million, hitting the upper end of analysts’ pre-release predictions. If that result holds, it will be a new opening weekend record...