Box-Office Weekend: Mario Bros. Still On Top

Box Office Weekend

For a second consecutive week, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie held onto the number one slot of the box-office weekend top ten as it repeated on top this weekend by a margin of $44.4 million.

“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” posterAlthough its intake was $61.9 million less than last weekend, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie still held onto the top spot of the box-office weekend top ten by a decent margin. In its second week of release, the film took in $69.0 million, giving the Universal Pictures product a two-week total of $308.1 million. Holding steady in second place yet again was Amazon MGM Studios’ Project Hail Mary in its fourth weekend of release, the film took in $24.6 million, bringing its overall total to $256.7 million. Meanwhile, the A24 release, The Drama repeated a finish in third place where it made $8.7 million for the studio, lifting its overall total to $30.8 million. The Universal Pictures release of You, Me & Tuscany debuted in fourth place with $8.0 million earned over the weekend. Following a fourth-place finish a week ago, Hoppers fell to fifth place where it made $4.1 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures – giving the film a six-week total of $157.1 million.

Trafalgar Releasing enjoyed a sixth-place debut for its release of BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ in GOYANG: LIVE VIEWING as the special event brought in $2.4 million over the weekend. Seventh place was claimed by Faces of Death which took in $1.7 million for IFC Films. Neon’s Exit 8 then debuted in eighth place with $1.4 million over the weekend. These debuts pushed last weekend’s sixth-place film, A Great Awakening, to ninth place this weekend where it brought in $1.3 million to give the Roadside Attractions release a two-week total of $1.3 million. Finally, Universal Pictures saw its Reminders of Him fall from fifth to tenth place, where it brought in $1.0 million over the weekend for the studio – giving the film a five-week total of $47.5 million.

Almost half of last weekend’s top ten were pushed from this week’s list, as the four films that dropped from last weekend’s top ten ended up being those that finished in seventh through tenth place. Following three weeks in release, that saw it make $10.4 million for Warner Bros., They Will Kill You failed to secure a spot in this weekend’s top ten. Meanwhile, Dhurandhar The Revenge made Moviegoers Entertainment $27.4 million over the last four weeks, but couldn’t crack the top ten after an eighth-place finish seven days ago. After a ninth-place finish last weekend, Searchlight Pictures’ Ready or Not 2: Here I Come failed to claim a spot in the top ten this week and instead had to settle for a four-week total of $22.1 million. Finally, A24’s Undertone was swept out of the top ten after grossing a total of $19.7 million over the last five weeks.

Weekend Box Office
(April 10th – April 12th)

    1. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie…$69.0 Million
    2. Project Hail Mary…$24.6 Million
    3. The Drama…$8.7 Million
    4. You, Me & Tuscany …$8.0 Million
    5. Hoppers…$4.1 Million
    6. BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ in GOYANG: LIVE VIEWING…$2.4 Million
    7. Faces of Death…$1.7 Million
    8. Exit 8…$1.4 Million
    9. A Great Awakening…$1.3 Million
    10. Reminders of Him…$1.0 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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