- The Super Mario Bros Movie (review)- $146.3M/$204.6M
Gee, you think Nintendo regrets waiting so long to dive back into the movie market with The Super Mario Bros Movie? The iconic plumber threw a wrench in the competition with an amazing $204M five-day total, and record-breaking $377M worldwide for animation. That gives the animated film the largest opening weekend of the year, beating Marvel’s Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania. It’s also the second-largest domestic animated debut ever behind 2016’s Finding Dory. Not only that, but Jack Black’s power ballad “Peaches”, in which the villain Bowser pours his heart out for Princess Peach, is rapidly climbing the music charts and could drive the film to even greater box office heights.
2. John Wick: Chapter 4– $14.6M/$147M
3. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves– $14.5M/$62.2M
4. Air (review)- $14.4M/$20.2M
His Airness couldn’t topple Mario and Luigi at the box office, but it was still a solid $20M debut for Air. The Ben Affleck/Matt Damon film about Nike’s trailblazing partnership with a rookie Michael Jordan is Amazon Stuidos’ first major national theatrical release, and it’ll be interesting to see if it leads to more.
5. Scream VI– $3.3M/$103.8M
6. His Only Son– $3.2M/$11M
7. Creed III– $2.8M/$153.2M
8. Shazam! Fury of the Gods– $1.6M/$56.6M
9. Paint (review)- $750K
The Owen Wilson comedy Paint, in which he plays a Bob Ross-esque public television artist, was treated by audiences like the oddity that it appeared to be…and full disclosure, that it is. Weird movie. Anyway, the IFC Films release earned $750K at 819 theaters. My first thought was that ten or fifteen years ago an Owen Wilson comedy, any of them, would’ve commanded a lot more attention.
10. A Thousand and One– $600K/$2.9M
