FRIDAY AFTERNOON: Illumination is looking to set another three-day record as a Universal-Nintendo co-production Movie Super Mario Bros is on track for a $72 million Friday-Sunday, the best second weekend for the animation studio. That’s a 51% ease in 4,371 theaters after a $20m second Friday, -64%. The running total at the end of Sunday will be $332.8 million.
Last best second weekend belonged to Illumination followers which returned $49.2 million, -57%.
Second place seems to go to Amazon/Artists Equity/Skydance Sports/Mandalay’s Heaven look at a second Friday of $2.4M, -52% – a great holiday weekend delay, and 3 days of $8M +, -44% and a running total of $33.5M dollars at 3,507 locations.
Third is currently a dead end between Universal Renfield and Screen Gems’ exorcist of the pope both north of $3 million for Friday and just under $8 million.
The fifth goes to the fourth weekend from Lionsgate John Wick: Chapter 4 in 3,033 theaters with a $2M Friday, -58%, and 3-day $7M, -52%, for a running tally through Sunday of $159.1M.
FRIDAY AM: Aside from Illumination and Universal, five major releases hit theaters this weekend The Super Mario Bros. Movie will prevail with a second weekend and a -60% profit $58 million. Plumbers has already grossed a total of $260 million across the US over nine days, with more than $300 million on the horizon this weekend.
Super Mario Bros extrapolated $9.4 million Thursday at 4,343 locations, down 13% from Wednesday’s $10.7 million. (Watch the trailer here.)
Two genre films aimed at guys over 25 come with one funnier than the other in the showdown between Universal’s vampire comedy starring Nicolas Cage Renfield and Sony/Screen Gems’ The Pope’s Exorcismwith Russell Crowe.
Renfield done $900,000 in previews Thursday night at The Pope’s Exorcism‘S $850,000. Both predicted $8 million – $10 million, but Renfield appears to be at the top of this range. At 62% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes among critics (82% among moviegoers), The film has meanwhile been booked in 3,300 cinemas The Pope’s Exorcism was saddled at 3,100 pages with 48% rotten (but 86% with spectators).
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Renfield follows Dracula’s faithful servant with Nicholas Hoult in the title role. He is forced to get his master Dracula’s (Cage) loot and fulfill all his desires, even if he is humiliated. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there is life beyond the shadow of the Prince of Darkness. If only he could figure out how to break codependency. The film is clearly aimed at those who loved the iconic 1980s monster comedy Transylvania 6-5000. Directed by Chris McKay. (Watch the trailer here.)
Julius Avery directs Crowe as Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican’s chief exorcist exorcist of the pope as he investigates the possession of a child and uncovers a conspiracy the Vatican is trying to keep secret.
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Sony is working on Crunchyroll’s Makoto Shinkai film suzume, booked in 2,150 theaters, plus Imax and PLF theaters. Thursday night at 2,650 locations, the quirky original anime film earned $680,000 in 1,925 theaters (as of 4 p.m.) for what a 5 million dollars open weekend
Bleecker Street has the comedy Toni Collette-Monica Bellucci Mafia Mom in 2,002 theaters for a 3-day run in the single digits.
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Briarcliff Entertainment has Fresh water in 1,204 movie theaters. Directed by Martin Guigui, it stars Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Roberts, Cary Elwes and Everett Osborne and follows the story of Hall of Famer Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, who became the first African-American to become an NBA champion wrote forever. contract signed. change how the basketball game is played.
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