OREANDA-NEWS The American animated film "The Lion King" (The Lion King) once again led the Russian film distribution, collecting 513.5 million rubles for the past weekend. This is evidenced by preliminary data from the portal kinobusiness.com for the period from July 25 to July 28.

The film in the adventure genre directed by John Favreau became a remake of the 1994 cartoon of the same name. The picture is completely filmed using photo-realistic computer animation. The film was released on July 18, 2019.

On the second line was the fantastic spider-man Spider-Man: Far From Home, directed by John Watts. Over the past weekend fees for it amounted to 40.2 million rubles.

The third place at the box office is occupied by the film "Vidocq: Ghost Hunter" (L'Empereur de Paris), which collected 20.8 million rubles in the Russian box office following the results of the weekend. The director of the historical drama was Jean-François Richet.