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Box-Office Weekend: That’s Four for Mario!

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

The past four weekends at the box-office have belonged to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which held the top spot of the box-office weekend again this week by nearly $28 million.

With $40.0 million over its fourth weekend in release, The Super Mario Bros. Movie lifted its overall total to $490.0 million. Standing tall in second place was Evil Dead Rise, which added $12.2 million in its second weekend of release to brings its cumulative total to $44.4 million. Meanwhile, debuting in third place was Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret with $6.8 million. John Wick: Chapter 4 held its ground in fourth place with $5.0 million to show for its sixth weekend in release, bringing its total to $176.2 million. Debuting in fifth place over the weekend with $4.6 million, was the re-release of Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi.

This pushed Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves out of the top five and into sixth place with $4.1 million over the weekend, bringing the film’s five-week total to $88.2 million. Air similarly dropped a spot to seventh while adding $4.0 million in its fourth weekend of release, bringing its total to $47.6 million. The third debut in the top ten this weekend, Ponniyin Selvan: Part Two, took eighth place with $3.8 million. Last weekend’s second-place film, The Covenant, fell all the way down to ninth-place this weekend earning $3.6 million in its second week of release. This gives the film an overall total of $12.3 million. Finally, the fourth debut of the weekend box-office, Sisu took tenth-place with $3.3 million.

All of this activity pushed four films from the box-office weekend for a third consecutive weekend. Again, the films in seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth place last weekend were forced out of the weekend box office. After three weeks in release: The Pope’s Exorcist leaves with $18.0 million; Renfield vanishes with $16.3 million; Beau Is Afraid managed to scare up only $5.6 million; and, Suzume (Suzume no tojimari), departs with an overall total of $9.8 million.

Weekend Box Office (April 28th – April 30th)

  1. The Super Mario Bros. Movie…$40.0 Million
  2. Evil Dead Rise…$12.2 Million
  3. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.…$6.8 Million
  4. John Wick: Chapter 4…$5.0 Million
  5. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi…$4.7 Million
  6. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves…$4.1 Million
  7. Air…$4.0 Million
  8. Ponniyin Selvan: Part Two…$3.8 Million
  9. The Covenant…$3.6 Million
  10. Sisu…$3.3 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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