This year's big faceoff was between Jeff Fowler's Sonic The Hedgehog 3 and Barry Jenkins' Mufasa: The Lion King, and round one of the box office battle has gone to the former. The video game ...

The photorealistic “Lion King” prequel even opened wider than “Sonic 3,” launching on 4,100 theaters and gobbling up most IMAX screens, compared with 3,761 locations for “Sonic 3.” ...