Weekend Box Office: Mario Closes in on a Billion
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 3:02PM By Ben Miller
For the third straight week, The Super Mario Bros. Movie ran away with the weekend box office, this time to the tune of $59.9 million. That's good for the 7th-best third weekend in history. The domestic total currently sits at $436 million with a matching number overseas. At $870 million and climbing, expect it to become a billion dollar film (and probably franchise) in the upcoming weeks. Couterprogramming did pretty good for the horror sequel Evil Dead Rise with a solid $24.5 million haul. That's equivalent to its 2013 predecessor, which ended at around $54 million. With a $19 million budget, it once again shows that horror is the most profitable of genres...
| Weekend Box Office (actuals) April 21st-23rd 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended |
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| WIDE (Over 800 Screens) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE |
 SOMEWHERE IN QUEENS |
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1 THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE $59.9 (cum. $436) 4,350 screens |
1 🔺 SOMEWHERE IN QUEENS $671k *NEW* 602 screens |
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2 🔺 EVIL DEAD RISE $24.5 *NEW* 3,402 screens |
2 NEFARIOUS $631k (cum. $2.4) 757 screens |
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3 🔺 GUY RITCHIE'S THE COVENANT $6.4 *NEW* 2,611 screens |
3 🔺★ SHOWING UP $199k (cum. $416k) 85 screens |
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4 JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 $5.8 (cum. $168.9) 2,685 screens |
4 HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE $157k (cum. $601k) 530 screens |
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5 ★ DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES $5.5 (cum. $82.3) 2,960 screeens |
5 WILD LIFE $51k (cum. $119k) 14 screens |
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6 ★ AIR $5.4 (cum. $41.8) 3,507 screens |
6 🔺★ JOYLAND $38k (cum. $84k) 8 screens |
 BEAU IS AFRAID |
 JOYLAND |
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7 THE POPE'S EXORCIST $3.4 (cum. $15.0) 3,178 screens |
7 ★ A THOUSAND AND ONE $25k (cum. $3.38) 33 screens |
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8 RENFIELD $3.3 (cum. $13.8) 3,378 screens |
8 SWEETWATER $22k (cum. $528k) 207 screens |
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9 🔺BEAU IS AFRAID $2.8 (cum. $3.1) 965 screens |
9 ★ THE LOST KING $19.5k (cum. $1.16) 38 screens |
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10 SUZUME $1.6 (cum. $8.4) 2,170 screens |
10 🔺 LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING $15k *NEW* 19 screens |
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11 🔺 CHEVALIER $1.5 *NEW* 1,275 screens |
11 🔺 OTHER PEROPLE'S CHILDREN $12.6k *NEW* 3 screens |
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12 MAFIA MAMMA $514k (cum. $3.3) 1,613 screens |
12 🔺CARMEN $10.8k *NEW* 3 screens |
Elsewhere, the much discussed Ari Aster film Beau is Afraid expanded to just under 1,000 screens and did a bit under $3,000 per screen. Impressive considering the response and length. The Kelvin Harrison-starring Chevalier only managed $1.5 million in a smaller, though wide release. On the limited/platform side, Ray Romano's directorial debut Somewhere in Queens opened quietly with less than $1 million on 600 screens.
Next Weekend - Further Mario counterprogramming is planned for next week with the sports biopic Big George Foreman and the Judy Blume adaptation Are You There God, It's Me Margaret. We also have the limited release of the Sundance hit Polite Society and the Nazi killing World War II action film Sisu. Expect Mario to win the week again.
What did you see this weekend? My own Oscar completism is not nearly as complete as Baby Clyde's, but I was able to knock out 1946's The Killers as well as the 1994 version of Little Women. I also watched the AppleTV+ Ghosted (don't recommend) and the aforementioned Are You There God? It's Me Margaret (which I can't recommend enough).
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Reader Comments (11)
I actually contributed to the box office this weekend. I went to RENFIELD because I needed to laugh. and I did.
I saw Beau is Afraid this weekend as it is a good film but a really frustrating one due to the fact that its protagonist is a really spineless pussy who rarely stands up for himself and that it is also very bloated in its near-three hour running time as it needed some trimming.
Fairly quiet weekend
Jaws again still gets me everytime a fantastic film near flawless
Cast a Dark Shadow Dirk Bogarde thriller not bad
Dirk Bogarde 2 hour documentary fascinating man great actor
The Outwaters will give you nightmares if you can stay with it,I thought it was rather pointless
No Way to treat a Lady Remick Steiger Segal all great,slyly comic
Romeo and Juliet 68 version I was bored as I usually am with Shakespeare enjoyed Heywood and McEnery's performances though
Sisu is doing a big marketing push with Twitch. Wondering how that will impact its box office.
Beau is Afraid - long live LuPone
Evil Dead II - love Bruce Campbell, but for me, he will always be Autolycus on Xena: Warrior Princess
Cocaine Bear - fine, but should have been tonally campy
And catching up on 70s actresses:
The Great White Hope -- Jane Alexander would certainly go supporting by today's standards
Nicholas and Alexandra -- not great, but not a slog, with a couple of fun queers half way through to liven it up
A Woman Under the Influence -- not my jam
Women in Love - what I thought would be a stodgy film, was terrific even beyond the homoerotic wrestling. The conversations, transition shots, Alan Bates sexiness...yes, please!
That is comparable to the 2013 version's final revenue of about $54 million. It once again demonstrates that horror is the most lucrative genre, with a $19 million budget.
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@Kelly Garrett hearing someone who didn't like AWUTI made my day,If I tell anyone I don't think Gena R is all that in it and the films a slog I get cans thrown at me.
The enormous success of the Mario movie leads me to believe it’ll probably be nominated for Best Animated Feature next year despite lukewarm at best reviews. But I guess that’s what happens when like a quarter of all animated films get nominated.
Have any of you been watching Amazon's version of Dead Ringers with Rachel Weisz? It is extremely compelling - aside from Succession, my favorite tv of the year so far. The gender switch in the main roles works very well.
I also saw a preview of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. What a truly wonderful adaptation with great performances from three generations of actresses.
“The Lost King”, dir. Stephen Frears
The always watchable Sally Hawkins plays the woman who led the search for the burial place of King Richard III, and to rehabilitate his reputation (he was on the losing side of the wars, the last Plantagenet king). His bones were found buried under a parking lot, and verified by DNA from a living descendant.
“Mafia Mamma”.
Director Catherine Hardwicke certainly knows how to craft an effective genre piece. I like the way the characters are all distinct in her movies, you know who’s who. I think it might be that she films supporting characters as though they were main characters.
“The Ordinaries”, dir. Sophie Linnenbaum
(Sci fi, Comedy, social commentary)
In this world, people are divided into 3 classes: Main Characters, Supporting Characters, and Outtakes. The teenage heroine attends Main Character School, where she is having difficulty with her monologue for her final exam, which will make her an accredited Main Character.
I liked it, although it wasn’t as light and comedic as I thought it would be. I should have remembered it was a German art film.
Whenever a character starts talking about why social divisions are needed, who should go in each division, and what should be done to the people in that division, it’s like a psychotic break. They suddenly look vicious and evil, and then the benign mask is on again. And then there’s a song and dance.
It’s very unsettling. I was starting to think making social divisions is a monstrous act of violence.
@Mr Ripley79 Glad to give your day a lift! It's no Gloria!