Box-Office Weekend: Mario Bros. are Super

Box Office Weekend

A new film stands atop the box-office weekend top ten as The Super Mario Galaxy Movie displaced Project Hail Mary by a margin of $100.2 million.

“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” posterIn its first weekend of release, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie took in $130.9 million for Universal Pictures, giving the film an extended holiday total of $190.1 million. This was more than enough to unseat Project Hail Mary from the top spot and send it to second place where it brought in $30.7 million, giving the Amazon MGM Studios release a three-week total of $217.2 million. Meanwhile, A24 saw The Drama debut in third place over the weekend where it took in $14.4 million for the studio. All this activity forced Hoppers down two spots to a fourth-place finish over the weekend where the film added $5.8 million to bring its five-week total to $149.6 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Holding its ground in fifth place, Reminders of Him took in $2.2 million to give the Universal Pictures product a four-week total of $45.4 million.

Roadside Attractions enjoyed a $2.1 million debut for A Great Awakening that landed the film in sixth place over the weekend. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. saw its They Will Kill You drop from third to seventh where it made $1.9 million to bring the film’s two-week total to $8.8 million. Also falling four spots to claim eighth place this weekend was the Moviegoers Entertainment release Dhurandhar The Revenge with $1.82 million, giving the film a three-week total of $26.1 million. After a sixth-place finish last weekend, Searchlight Pictures’ Ready or Not 2: Here I Come fell to ninth place this weekend where it took in $1.8 million for the studio, giving the film a three-week total of $20.2 million. Finally, falling one spot to land in tenth place this weekend, A24’s Undertone added $1.1 million over the last three days to lift the film’s four-week total to $19.5 million.

Three films from last weekend’s top ten fell from this week’s list. After a seventh-place finish last weekend, Paramount Pictures International’s Scream 7 couldn’t maintain a spot in the top ten and instead settled for a six-week total of $120.5 million. The eighth-place finish that Sont Pictures Releasing’s GOAT enjoyed last weekend, was not repeated this week as the film failed to crack the top ten, instead, it had to settle for an eight-week total of $102.5 million. Finally, following a finish in tenth-place a week ago, Forbidden Fruits could not continue its momentum and was forced to settle for a two-week total of $2.0 million.

Weekend Box Office
(April 3rd – April 5th)

    1. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie…$130.9 Million
    2. Project Hail Mary…$30.7 Million
    3. The Drama…$14.4 Million
    4. Hoppers…$5.8 Million
    5. Reminders of Him…$2.2 Million
    6. A Great Awakening…$2.1 Million
    7. They Will Kill You…$1.9 Million
    8. Dhurandhar The Revenge…$1.82 Million
    9. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come…$1.8 Million
    10. Undertone…$1.1 Million
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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