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Box-Office Weekend: Mario Bros. Starts Strong

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Yet again, a new film stands atop the box-office weekend as The Super Mario Bros. Movie took control of first place by a margin of $131.8 million.

Debuting with an overall total of $204.6 million and a weekend total of $146.4 million, The Super Mario Bros. Movie eclipsed all competitors for dominion over the weekend box-office. In a very distant second-place was John Wick: Chapter 4 holding its ground with $14.6 million over the weekend. This boosted the film’s three-week total to $147.1 million. Falling from first to third place was Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves which garnered $14.5 million in its second week of release, bring its overall total to $62.3 million. Air debuted in fourth place with $14.5 million over the weekend. This pushed last weekend’s fourth-place film, Scream VI to fifth place where it added $3.3 million over the weekend to raise its five-week total to $103.8 million.

Dropping from third-place to sixth over the weekend was His Only Son which brought in $3.3 million over Easter weekend to give it a two-week total of $11.0 million. Falling two spots to finish in seventh place this weekend was Creed III with $2.8 million. This gives the sequel a six-week overall total of $153.3 million. Also dropping two spots, to land in eight place, was Shazam! Fury of the Gods with $1.6 million over the last three days. This brings the film’s four-week total to $56.6 million. Debuting in the ninth spot was Paint which brought in $750,000. Finally, last weekend’s seventh-place film, A Thousand and One fell to tenth place with $600,000 over the weekend, bringing its two-week total to $3.0 million.

Again, three films were ousted from the top ten this weekend. After five weeks, 65 drops from the list with an overall total of $31.5 million. Meanwhile, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania departs with an eight-week total of $212.6 million. Finally, Jesus Revolution falls from the list with a seven-week total of $51.7 million.

Weekend Box Office (April 7th – April 9th)

  1. The Super Mario Bros. Movie…$146.4 Million
  2. John Wick: Chapter 4…$14.6 Million
  3. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves…$14.5 Million
  4. Air…$14.5 Million
  5. Scream VI…$3.3 Million
  6. His Only Son…$3.3 Million
  7. Creed III…$2.8 Million
  8. Shazam! Fury of the Gods…$1.6 Million
  9. Paint…$750,000
  10. A Thousand and One…$600,000

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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