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# ‘Super Mario Bros.’ levels up with $87M weekend
- URL: https://www.theomnicosm.com/the-box-office-report-super-mario/
- Published: 2023-04-17T11:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-19T16:36:46.000Z
- Description: Nintendo’s massive hit snags the top spot on the yearly domestic chart.
- Author: Bill Kuchman
- Tags: Popculturology • The Box Office Report, Popculturology, The Super Mario Bros Movie

Hello! Welcome to **The** **Box Office Report** for the weekend of April 14-16, 2023.

## 1\. The Super Mario Bros. Movie

**Weekend gross:* $87M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $347.8M* 
**Last weekend:* 1st* 
**Percent drop:* \-41*

Another dominant weekend for *The Super Mario Bros. Movie*. The film fell just 41 percent from its opening weekend, holding on for a fantastic $87 million.

A second weekend that big cracks the top ten list for best second weekends, joining a club that consists mostly of giant franchise films (a *Star Wars* movie, four Marvel Cinematic Universe installments, a *Jurassic World* movie and then the live-action *Beauty and the Beast* remake and *Top Gun: Maverick*).

*The Super Mario Bros. Movie* is now the top grossing film for 2023 at the domestic box office, jumping ahead what *Avatar: The Way of Water* had grossed during this calendar year. By a lot. *The Super Mario Bros. Movie* now stands at $347.8 million to *The Way of Water*’s $257.5 million.

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## 2\. The Pope’s Exorcist

**Weekend gross:* $9.2M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $9.2M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

Big drop between the weekend’s No. 1 and No. 2 films. While I was looking at **Russell Crowe**’s career box office numbers, my memory was jogged that *Noah* and *Robin Hood* were real movies that he starred in and that opened at $43.7 million and $36 million. You all remember **Oscar Isaac** yelling “I declare you to be an outLAAAAWWWWW”?

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## 3\. John Wick: Chapter 4

**Weekend gross:* $7.9M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $160.1M* 
**Last weekend:* 2nd* 
**Percent drop:* \-45*

*John Wick: Chapter 4* creeps closer to becoming the top grossing *John Wick* film domestically. (The movie already claimed that title for the worldwide box office.) The fourth *John Wick* film should be able to pull together the renaming $11 million it needs to surpass *John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum*’s $171 million.

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## 4\. Renfield

**Weekend gross:* $7.8M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $7.8M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

Huh. Based on how much I’ve seen *Renfield* talked about on social media, I thought it would’ve opened higher than $7.8 million.

## 5\. Air

**Weekend gross:* $7.7M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $33.3M* 
**Last weekend:* 3rd* 
**Percent drop:* \-47*

*Air* should’ve been the title of the prestige reboot of the *Air Bud* franchise.

*Box office numbers via* [*The Numbers*](http://www.the-numbers.com/?ref=theomnicosm.com) *based on Sunday estimates.*

## Next weekend

*Beau Is Afraid* and *Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant* both hit theaters next weekend, but will either of them have the juice to dethrone *The Super Mario Bros. Movie*? Pretty sure the answer to that one is “nope.” Even if *The Super Mario Bros. Movie* fell by sixty percent its third weekend, a new film would have to clear $30 million to beat it.

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