‘Super Mario Bros.’ Leaps to $127.5M 2nd Best 5-Day Debut for Enlightenment – Afternoon Box Office

Lighting/Nintendo/Universal The Super Mario Bros. Movie doesn’t need a fungus to get bigger, it’s just organic. Wednesday out of the gate, with no preview Tuesday, check out the adaptation of the classic game’s features $26 millionfor which is translated into a $86.2 million three days total and $127.5 million Walking from Wednesday to Sunday. Interestingly, although opening day was a Friday, Paramount/Segas Sonic the Hedgehog2 had a $26.3 million first day a year ago (including Thursday previews). This film currently holds the three-day opening record for a video game adaptation at $72.1 million, a benchmark Super Mario Bros. looking for pumpkin

If these numbers stand Super Mario Bros. will be the second-best five-day debut (Wednesday through Sunday) for an Illumination title after 2013 Despicable Me 2, which grossed $143 million.

No critic can shrink Super Mario Bros.; The image’s Rotten Tomatoes rating is 54% Rotten, but it has a viewer rating of 95%. It’s already a better diagnosis than the 1993 live-action version, directed by the late Bob Hoskins and directed by Dennis Hopper and John Leguizamo, which earned 29% Rotten from critics and viewers.

Amazon/Artists Equity/Skydance Sports/Mandalays Heavenwhich is positioned for people over 25 see a first day of $3.5 milliona three-day course from $10.1 millionand a van for five days 16 million dollars. Directed and starring Ben Affleck in a reteam with him and his buddy goodwill hunt Oscar winner Matt Damon, the picture tells the story of how Nike hired a young Michael Jordan to create the Air Jordan sneakers that changed the company forever. Critics and audiences alike are taking a break Heaven97% certified freshness and 98% respectively.

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Neither Amazon nor Universal held previews yesterday due to Discount Tuesdays. Both wanted pure bread today.

How is Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves keep? The $150 million Paramount/eOne production has a five-day domestic gross of $43.6 million, down from a Monday of $2.7 million (down 69% from Sunday) and a Tuesday of $3.6 million (+31%) . If all goes well by the second weekend, there will be a 45% drop to around $20 million in revenue.