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Mario Still the King of the Mushroom Kingdom; Weekend Box Office Results (Apr. 14-16)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie continues to make unbelievable amounts of money. This weekend saw it make $87 million. A 40.6% decline? That's an incredible hold. It's crazy because when I was reading Deadline's box office article on Friday, they had it doing $59 million and then, in the afternoon, it jumped to $72 million. Yesterday morning they had it doing $80 million and then, in the afternoon it jumped up to $87 million.
Mario just had the 9th biggest 2nd weekend ever, just behind Top Gun: Maverick's $90 million. Its $39.1 million Saturday was the 6th biggest 2nd Saturday ever. It also became the 15th fastest movie to gross $300 million. It actually beat out Top Gun: Maverick which was the 17th fastest to cross the plateau. Add it all up and you have a movie that is now made $347.8 million domestically and $677.9 million worldwide.
Russell Crowe's, The Pope's Exorcist debuted in second place with $9.1 million. It's $850K in Thursday previews was actually $50K less than Renfield's $900k. The power of Crowe compelled audiences to like it more than Renfield which is evidenced by its 84% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes to Renfield's 81% score. It was the same overseas as It pulled in $27.4 million. Who knew?
Aight so surely Renfield debuted in 3rd place, right?
That would be John Wick: Chapter 4 with another $7.9 million. It's now crossed $160.1 million domestically. It's at $349.7 million worldwide. Under the table is where s*** gets done and where millions gets made.
Now we finally arrived at Renfield debuting in fourth place with $7.77 million. with this being a Universal movie making under $50 million, it'll be on premium video on demand in 14 days. I already cited the Rotten Tomatoes numbers in The Pope's Exorcist section, but Renfield only got to B- CinemaScore. Not what you're looking for. Internationally it only brought in $2.2 million. It's only total of $10 million. And this is what the production budget of $86 million.
The Count just beat out Mike, as Air took 5th place with $7.72 million. Its now crossed $33.2 million domestically and $54 million worldwide.
Notables
Toni Collette had herself a nice weekend. She has The Power series on Prime Video and Mafia Mamma debuted in 7th place with $2 million. Wanted to get up in this broad since I saw her in Shaft back in the day.
Toni Collette Butt Scene in United States Of Tara
Sweetwater opened with $350K from 1,204 theaters. It debuted in 11th place.
The Ari Aster-Joaquin Phoenix joint, Beau Is Afraid, debuted with $320K from 4 theaters.
Violent Night is still in theaters. It just did $4K in its 20th weekend. It's up to $50.05M.
The Top Ten
Rank | LW | Movie | Gross | +/- % LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
1 | 1 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | $87,000,000 | -40.6% | 4,371 | $347,823,700 | 2 | Universal |
2 | - | The Pope's Exorcist | $9,150,000 | - | 3,178 | $9,150,000 | 1 | Screen Gems |
3 | 2 | John Wick: Chapter 4 | $7,925,000 | -45.2% | 3,033 | $160,112,705 | 4 | Lionsgate |
4 | - | Renfield | $7,770,000 | - | 3,375 | $7,770,000 | 1 | Universal |
5 | 3 | Air | $7,720,599 | -46.6% | 3,507 | $33,283,549 | 2 | - |
6 | 4 | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | $7,350,000 | -47% | 3,324 | $74,070,213 | 3 | Paramount |
7 | - | Mafia Mamma | $2,044,875 | - | 2,002 | $2,044,875 | 1 | Bleecker Street Media |
8 | 5 | Scream VI | $1,455,000 | -57.5% | 1,288 | $106,792,852 | 6 | Paramount |
9 | - | Nefarious | $1,330,000 | - | 933 | $1,330,000 | 1 | Soli Deo Gloria Releasing |
10 | 6 | His Only Son | $518,971 | -81.5% | 1,037 | $12,055,835 | 3 | Angel Studios |