Weekend Box Office: (Studio) Movies are Back!
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 9:23PM By Ben Miller
For the seventh straight week, a new film at the box office is the new number one. There was little doubt The Super Mario Bros. Movie would dominate, but I don't think anyone saw how much it would make. The Nintendo/Illumination film make a whopping $166 million over the long Easter weekend. That's good for the third-best Easter weekend opening ever behind Furious 7 and Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Elsewhere, the numbers two, three, and four film were all real close with John Wick: Chapter 4, Ben Affleck's Air, and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves around $15-16 million. Those are some pretty solid numbers for counterprogramming to the kid-centric Mario. (Big-budget, studio) Movies are back, baby!
| Weekend Box Office (actuals) April 7th-10th 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended |
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| WIDE (Over 800 Screens) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE |
 HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE |
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1 🔺 THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE $166.4 (cum. $224.7) 4,343 screens |
1 🔺 LA USURPADORA: THE MUSICAL $128k *NEW* 313 screens |
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2 JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 $16 (cum. $148.5) 3,855 screens |
2 A GOOD PERSON $128k (cum. $2.1) 337 screens |
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3 🔺★ AIR $15.9 (cum. $21.7) 3,507 screens |
3 HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE $115k *NEW* 12 screens |
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4 ★ DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES $15.4 (cum. $63.2) 3,856 screeens |
4 MUMMIES $67k (cum. $4.2) 187 screens |
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5 SCREAM VI $3.8 (cum. $104.4) 2,286 screens |
5 🔺★ SHOWING UP $66k *NEW* 4 screens |
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6 CREED III $3 (cum. $153.5) 2002 screens |
6 🔺 RIDE ON $64k *NEW* 48 screens |
 A THOUSAND AND ONE |
 JOYLAND |
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7 HIS ONLY SON $2.8 (cum. $10.6) 1930 screens |
7 ★ THE LOST KING $59k (cum. $1.0) 265 screens |
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8 SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS $1.7 (cum. $56.7) 2,203 screens |
8 ★ RETURN TO SEOUL $39k (cum. $700k) 51 screens
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9 ★ THE QUIET GIRL $32k (cum. $1.4) 69 screens |
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10 🔺 PAINT $570k *NEW* 819 screens |
10 ENYS MEN $24k (cum. $165k) 52 screens |
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11 ★ 65 $503k (cum. $31.5) 815 screens |
11 🔺★ JOYLAND $20k *NEW* 1 screen
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Only 11 films are currently in wide release |
12 TORI AND LOKITA $13k (cum. $47k) 11 screens
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12 🔺★ NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV $12k (cum. $54k) 5 screens
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Things are a little more pessimistic on the limited/platform side. With the top four films taking up over 3,500 screens a piece, that leaves little room for anything else. The Sundance fave How to Blow Up a Pipeline faired well with almost $10k per screen, while Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up made almost $17k per screen in very limited release. Pakistan's 2022 Oscar submission Joyland finally debuted and made a whopping $20k on a single screen.
Next Weekend - We actually get a bunch of varying types of films next week, headlined by the Nick Cage/Nick Hoult horror comedy Renfield and Russell Crowe as The Pope's Exorcist. We also get a biopic of the first Black NBA player Nat Clifton called Sweetwater as well as the Toni Collette mafia comedy aptly titled Mafia Mamma.
What did you watch this week? I was all over the place in my watches. I enjoyed plenty of disposable drivel (Mario, 80 for Brady, Happy Gilmore), but I also watched some pretty heavy stuff (On Golden Pond, Breaking the Waves, The Prince of Tides). I might be going though some stuff.
Joyland, Showing Up, Super Mario Bros Movie, box office
Reader Comments (7)
Super Mario Bros.'s Core Experience's unity and simplicity are responsible for its success. At this period, practically all games revolved around completing objectives in a limited time to get points.
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If you consider looking at Streisand's well manicured hands for 2 hrs,hooty gauze covered close ups,listening to her order food in cod french,Nelligan in Estelle Getty drag and Nolte making us believe in that romance then it's heavy going otherwise it's well put together mush with ok performances.
I saw
Bear Island dreadful Sutherland Redgrave Widmark thriller with no thrills
Interlude Oskar Werner 60's romance drama
Shoes of the Fisherman Werner again and Anthony Quinn religious drama,good performances
Oliver 1968 version with 2 performances that should have had Oscars Moody especially and Wallis maybe in a tie with Ruth Gordon
Dame Margaret Rutherford documentary fascinating woman
Ghost Story 80's Fred Astaire horror,it's a fave of mine.
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The Innocent from France (out of comp Cannes 2022 film and I believe a multiple Cesar nominee) was my film of the week, particularly how part of the plot was lifted from Charlie's Angels season 4 episode Angels Go Truckin'! Also enjoyed my rewatch of Die Hard -- probably first time since it was in theaters that I've seen. Rewarding but difficult was Jeanne Dielman. Finally caught up with Marnie, which I found mid-Hitchcock, but looking forward to other perspectives this weekend.
I watched The Unsuspected (1947), and I just loved it. Highly recommended, TFE peeps.
Avatar 2: Way of Water is still playing and so I saw that again. Enjoyable, refreshing, a good time at the movies. I like and respect James Cameron.
The Guardian calls the Avatar movies essentially the R&D wing of Hollywood, and I always get a thrill at tech innovation.
Cocaine Bear is also fun. Elizabeth Banks is someone I respect as both an actor and a director. This movie has been kind of dismissed as a gimmick movie, but Banks and team have crafted a brisk professional entertainment. I hope Elizabeth Banks is laughing all the way to the bank.
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