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The movie Super Mario Bros. has had stellar ticket sales in North America since coming to theaters. (Picture: Super Mario Movie/Twitter)
With overseas revenue now standing at $532 million, its cumulative worldwide total has reached $1.02 billion.
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” easily maintained its top spot on North American cinema screens over the weekend, while its cumulative worldwide total topped the $1 billion mark, analysts said Sunday.
The video game-based film has grossed around $40 million for the Friday-Sunday period in the United States and Canada, for a domestic total to date of $490 million, the Watcher reported. Exhibitor Relations industry.
With overseas revenue now standing at $532 million, its cumulative worldwide total has reached $1.02 billion.
That makes “Super Mario” – a joint venture between Universal Studios, Nintendo and Illumination – the first movie of the year to break the $1 billion mark and only the 10th animation to do so, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Second place, for the second weekend in a row, went to Warner Bros. gory horror film “Evil Dead Rise,” at $12.2 million. Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland play sisters fighting a demonic team known as the Deadites.
In third was “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” a new $6.8 million comedy-drama from Gracie Films and Lionsgate Films. Analyst David A. Gross called it a “fair opening” for a coming-of-age film, while adding that “reviews and audience scores are sensational.”
Based on Judy Blume’s beloved novel of the same name, it stars Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret Simon, a sixth-grade student who rises to the challenges of this difficult age. Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates also star.
Still going strong in its sixth weekend, Lionsgate’s neo-noir “John Wick: Chapter 4” placed fourth at $5 million. Keanu Reeves plays the titular hitman.
And showing the enduring appeal of the “Star Wars” franchise, Disney’s re-release of “Return of the Jedi” ranked fifth, grossing $4.8 million.
The film starring icons Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher celebrates its 40th anniversary at the end of May. It sold over 80 million tickets during its first run.
Rounding out the top 10 were:
“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” ($4.1 million)
“Aerial” ($4 million)
“Ponniyin Selvan: II” ($3.7 million)
“The Covenant” ($3.6 million)
“Sisu” ($3.3 million)
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