It looks like there are two Christmas winners. Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King and Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog 3 both get to claim bragging rights to winning the holiday box office crown as a topsy-turvy year at the box office comes to a close - or sort of,

While Paramount's "Sonic 3" continues to earn the best numbers of the Sega series and Disney's "Mufasa" bounces back from a poor opening, Searchlight's "A Complete Unknown" is drawing in older audiences as "Nosferatu" is set to become one of the biggest hits ever for Focus Features.

The holiday weekend in North America saw two films battling for box-office supremacy and both emerging with a claim to first place.Overall, the weekend generated "big, although not record-breaking box office" numbers,