Box-Office Weekend: Mario Bros. Stay Super

The brothers Mario held onto the top spot of the box-office weekend by a wide margin as The Super Mario Bros. Movie bested the second-place film by $77.8 million this weekend.

Adding $87.0 million in its second weekend of release, The Super Mario Bros. Movie easily retained control of the top ten this weekend as it lifted its two-week total to $347.8 million. Debuting in a very distant second place was The Pope’s Exorcist with $9.2 million in its first weekend in release. This dropped John Wick: Chapter 4 to third place where it added $7.9 million over the weekend to bring the film’s four-week total to $160.1 million. In fourth place, the second debut of the weekend, Renfield, managed to bite off $7.8 million over its first weekend in release. This was good enough to best Air which took in $7.7 million over its second weekend and was pushed to a fifth-place finish by newcomer Renfield.

Sinking three spots to land in sixth place was Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves with $7.4 million. This gives the film a three-week total of $74.1 million. Meanwhile, Mafia Mama debuted in seventh place with $2.0 million over the weekend. All of this activity forced Scream VI to an eight-place finish with $1.5 million, after landing in fifth place last weekend. This gives the film an overall six-week total of $106.8 million. The fourth debut of the weekend, Nefarious managed $1.3 million over the last three days, which was enough to claim the ninth spot of the weekend. Finally, after a sixth-place finish last weekend, His Only Son fell to tenth with $519,000 over thew weekend; giving the film a three-week total of $12.1 million.

Four films were forced from the top ten over the past three days as Creed III, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Paint, and A Thousand and One all departed the weekend box-office top ten. Creed III leaves with $154.2 million taken in over six weeks. Meanwhile, Shazam! Fury of the Gods departs with only $57.2 million garnered over four weeks. Paint dried up after only one week, bringing in $750,000. Finally, after earning $3.3 million, A Thousand and One takes leave of the top ten after three weeks.

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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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