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Box-Office Weekend: Mario and Luigi Three-Peat

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For the third week in a row, The Super Mario Bros. Movie held the top spot of the box-office weekend by a significant margin. This weekend, it bested the second-place film by $34.7 million.

Adding $58.2 million over the weekend, The Super Mario Bros. Movie brought its three-week total to $434.3 million. Meanwhile, debuting in a distant second place was Evil Dead Rise with $23.5 million. In an even further third-place finish was newcomer The Covenant which debuted with $6.3 million over the weekend. These two debuts pushed John Wick: Chapter 4 from third to fourth place this weekend where it added $5.8 million to bring its five-week total to $168.9 million. Climbing a spot and re-entering the top five was Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves with $5.4 million. This resulted in the film’s overall four-week tally reaching $82.2 million.

Air dropped a spot to finish in sixth-place this weekend with $4.9 million, giving it a three-week total of $41.3 million. Last weekend’s second-place film, The Pope’s ExorcistM plummeted down to a seventh-place finish this weekend where it added $3.3 million to bring its two-week total to $14.9 million. Meanwhile, Renfield similarly dropped from fourth place to eighth this weekend with $3.1 million, giving it a two-week tally of $13.6 million. The third top-ten debut of the weekend, Beau Is Afraid brought in $2.8 million and landed in ninth place. This left Suzume in tenth place, where it debuted in the top ten with $1.7 million.

For the second consecutive weekend, four films were thrust from the top ten as the titles in the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth spots last weekend were all ousted. After only two weeks in release, Mafia Mama leaves with an overall total of $3.3 million. Over the course of seven weeks, Scream VI has managed to amass $107.7 million, but was pushed out of the top ten this weekend. Also in its second weekend of release, Nefarious departs the top ten with a cumulative total of $2.4 million. Finally, in its third week of release, His Only Son takes leave of the top ten with a grand total of $12.1 million.

Weekend Box Office (April 21st – April 23rd)

  1. The Super Mario Bros. Movie…$58.2 Million
  2. Evil Dead Rise…$23.5 Million
  3. The Covenant…$6.3 Million
  4. John Wick: Chapter 4…$5.8 Million
  5. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves…$5.4 Million
  6. Air…$4.9 Million
  7. The Pope’s Exorcist…$3.3 Million
  8. Renfield…$3.1 Million
  9. Beau Is Afraid…$2.8 Million
  10. Suzume (Suzume no tojimari)…$1.7 Million

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
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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