Box Office Results: Super Mario Bros. and Evil Dead Rise dominate

The movie Super Mario Bros. can’t be stopped, as the box office results indicate.

In its third weekend, the animated blockbuster grossed $58.2 million, the best third weekend ever for an animated film, according to Deadline, and approached the $900 million mark at the box. -global office. The film has grossed $871.8 million worldwide, all without help from Korea or Japan, where the film opens this week. It will be interesting to see what lessons Hollywood learns from this massive success.

Oh, and Mario is now the third-highest-grossing Universal release of all time behind Jurassic World ($653.4 million) and ET the Extra-Terrestrial ($437.1 million). Excluding inflation, of course.

Elsewhere, Rise of the Wicked Dead debuted at $23.5 million, which, given its $19 million production cost, is a big win for Warner Bros. million) and Black Phone ($23.6 million).

Meanwhile, Guy Ritchie’s The Pact grossed $6.28 million in its opening weekend. The rave reviews and good following suggest decent legs for the war thriller, which we’ll see in future box office results.

Box office results (4/23/23)

The movie Super Mario Bros. (Uni) 4,350 theaters (-21), Fri $14m (-38%), Sat $25.9m Sun $18.1m 3 days $58.2m (-37%), Total 434, $3M/week 3

Rise of the Wicked Dead (Netherlands) 3,402 theaters Fri $10.3m Sat $8.2m Sun $4.9m 3 days $23.5m/week 1

The Guy Ritchie Pact (MGM) 2,611 theaters Fri $2.2M Sat $2.3M Sun $1.65M 3 days $6.28M/week 1

John Wick: Chapter 4 (LG) 2,685 (-348) Sale Fri $1.57M (-25%), 3 days $5.75M (-29%), total $168.8M/week 5

Aria (AMZ) 2,823 theaters (-684) Fri $1.47M (-32%) Sat $2.4M Sun $1.68M 3 days $5.5M (-39%), total $41.3M/week 3

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Par) 2,960 (-364) Salt, Fri $1.39m (-29%), Sat $2.4m Sun $1.61m 3 days $5.4m ( – 30%), total $82.1M/week 4

The Pope’s Exorcist (Sony) 3,178 theaters, Friday $1M (-71%) Saturday $1.39M Sun $925,000 3 days $3.3M (-63%) / total $14.9M/week 2

Renfield (United) 3,378 (+3) Sat, Fri $910,000 (-68%), Sat $1.37m and Sun $820,000 3 days $3.1m (-61%), total 13.6 M$/ week 2

Beau’s Afraid (A24) 965 (+961) Sale, Friday $1.13M (+701%), Saturday $898K Sunday $678K 3 days $2.7M (+744%), PTA 2.8M $ Total $3.1M / week 2

Suzume (Sony/Crunch) Friday $450,000 (-79%), Saturday $670,000 Sunday $505,000 3 days $1.62M (-68%), total $8.4M/week 2

Caballero (Mare) 1,275 theaters, Friday $540,000 Saturday $570,000 Sunday $390,000 3 days $1.5 million/week 1

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