- Michael (review)- $97M
As expected, the King of Pop ruled this week with a massive and record breaking $97M weekend. This follows on a huge night of Thursday previews where Antoine Fuqua’s Michael earned $13M. The overall domestic number easily crushes the previous record for music biopics, Straight Outta Compton‘s $60M, as well as for biopics as a whole, Oppenheimer‘s $82.4M. Worldwide, the Jaafar Jackson-led crowd-pleaser has $217M.
2. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie– $21.2M/$386.4M
3. Project Hail Mary– $13.2M/$305.4M
4. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy– $5.6M/$23.4M
5. The Drama– $2.6M/$44.8M
6. Hoppers– $1.9M/$164.1M
7. You, Me & Tuscany– $1.5M/$17.6M
8. Over Your Dead Body– $1.4M
IFC released the festival favorite Over Your Dead Body into 1,550 theaters and earned just $1.4M, not even enough to top the eighth week of Hoppers in fewer locations. Ouch. The Jason Segel/Samara Weaving action-comedy about an unhappy couple who go on a vacation with secret plans to kill one another, holds at 69% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. I heard so much about this film that I expected it to perform better, but perhaps Michael just sucked all of the air out of the room?
9. Mother Mary (review)- $1.2M/$1.4M
A24 expanded David Lowery’s chamber drama/concert film/body horror Mother Mary into 1,100 theaters, where it earned $1.2M. Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel lead the film about a pop star diva and her former fashion designer, engaged in a war of words and weird supernatural stuff as the latter designs a new dress. Reviews were merely okay, currently at 68% from critics and a “rotten” 57% from audiences, so this one might just fade away before anyone realizes it was even here.
10. American Youngboy– $1.1M
Also…Roadside Attractions released the ticking bomb thriller Fuze (review), starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James, into 1,164 theaters where it earned $1.1M. The film, which premiered at TIFF last year, was directed by David Mackenzie of Hell or High Water fame.
I Swear, the BAFTA Award-winning drama led by Robert Aramayo as Tourette Syndrome activist John Davidson (yes, the same guy who shouted at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo), was released stateside by Sony Pictures Classics into 645 theaters, earning just $640K.
Finally, Greenwich Entertainment dropped the well-reviewed road trip drama Omaha (review) into just one New York location where it earned a whopping $13,500. The film, led by John Magaro and Molly Belle Wright (who I spoke to about it) will expand into more theaters in May.
