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'The Little Mermaid' Don't Sleep with the Fishes; Reels in $95M: Box Office Results (May 26-28)
Disney's The Little Mermaid live action remake jumps out the water and into theaters en route to $95M. It's angling for $117.5M over this Memorial Day holiday weekend.
It goes without saying that it's the number one movie at the box office. It's the 6th biggest Memorial Day weekend ever, just losing our to Fast & Furious 6's $97.3M.In fact, it's the 3rd biggest opening weekend, all time for a Disney live action remake, behind The Lion King ($191.7M) and Beauty and the Beast ($174.7M). It just swam it's way past Aladdin's $91.5M opening on Memorial Day weekend back in 2019. Like Aladdin, The Little Mermaid scored an A CinemaScore. And Aladdin went on to make $355.5M, so $370M+ is what I expect from Ariel. Speaking of which, Halle Bailey with them wide eyes, was a perfect choice for a fish based character.
We knew Fast X was gonna fall off because of The Little Mermaid, but damn, it had a 65.7% MCU like second week drop. It made $23.0M over the weekend and will bank 28.6M over the holiday. In a weird coincidence, it made the exact same $23.0 million in its second weekend as F9.
And it held on ever so slightly better than F9's 67.2% second weekend drop. It's up to $107.9M domestic and $507.2M worldwide. 
It's running neck and neck with F9, whose 2nd weekend also fell on a holiday, the 4th of July. It racked up $122.2M to Fast X's $113.6M. 
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. conveniently took 3rd with $19.9M and $25.3M over the four days. It currently stands at $299.4M domestic; $304.7M after the holiday. Vol. 2 tallied $301.3M after its 3rd weekend. It stands at a cool $723.4M worldwide.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie drops down to 4th with another $6.2M; $8.3M four day total. It'll total $560.9M domestic, which moves it past The Lion King's $543.6M, to become the 14th highest grossing movie ever, domestically. Its $1.27B worldwide running total now makes it the 20th biggest movie ever, edging out Beauty and the Beast's $1.26B. Next up? Frozen and its $1.28B. Sorry, Elsa, but it's
The Machine debuted in 5th place with $4.9M; $5.8 four day total. I saw this trailer play before a couple movies I've seen over the last couple of months.
It did nothing for me.
The reviews are poor, with
Not for me but it's also got a 7.0 on IMDb and Mark Hamill is supposed to be pretty good in it.
Notables
Robert DeNiro's About My Father debuted with $4.2M. It got a solid B+ CinemaScore which should propel it to a $5.2M four day.
Gerard Butler is back with Kandahar, which made $2.4M. It is also rocking a B+ CinemaScore, same as Plane. Plane had a much wider opening in 3,023 theaters compared to Kandahar's more modest 2,105. It'll take home $3M over the four day weekend.
With another $1M, Evil Dead Rise has crossed the $65M mark, with $66.2M.
The Top Ten
Rank | LW | Movie | Gross | % +/- LW | Theaters | Avg. | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
| 1 | - | The Little Mermaid | $95,500,000 | - | 4,320 | $22,106 | $95,500,000 | 1 | Disney |
| 2 | 1 | Fast X | $23,020,000 | -65.7% | 4,088 | $5,631 | $107,955,340 | 2 | Universal |
| 3 | 2 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | $19,950,000 | -38.4% | 3,940 | $5,063 | $299,425,817 | 4 | Disney |
| 4 | 3 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | $6,270,000 | -34.7% | 3,148 | $1,991 | $558,881,975 | 8 | Universal |
| 5 | - | The Machine | $4,900,000 | - | 2,409 | $2,034 | $7,949,978 | 1 | Sony |
| 6 | - | About My Father | $4,250,000 | - | 2,464 | $1,724 | $4,250,000 | 1 | Lionsgate |
| 7 | - | Kandahar | $2,410,000 | - | 2,105 | $1,144 | $2,410,000 | 1 | Open Road Films (II) |
| 8 | - | You Hurt My Feelings | $1,389,158 | - | 912 | $1,523 | $1,389,158 | 1 | A24 |
| 9 | 5 | Evil Dead Rise | $1,052,000 | -56.5% | 921 | $1,142 | $66,200,000 | 6 | Warner Bros. |
| 10 | 4 | Book Club: The Next Chapter | $920,000 | -69.3% | 1,339 | $687 | $16,131,970 | 3 | Focus Features |
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