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# ‘The Little Mermaid’ makes a $95.5M opening weekend part of her world
- URL: https://www.theomnicosm.com/the-box-office-report-the-little/
- Published: 2023-05-29T11:01:57.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-19T16:31:57.000Z
- Description: The Halle Bailey-led Disney remake tops the ‘Aladdin’ remake’s debut.
- Author: Bill Kuchman
- Tags: Popculturology • The Box Office Report, Popculturology, Disney, The Little Mermaid

Hello! Welcome to **The** **Box Office Report** for the weekend of May 26-28, 2023.

## 1\. The Little Mermaid

**Weekend gross:* $95.5M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $95.5M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

*The Little Mermaid*, the newest installment in Disney’s line of live-action remakes, dove into theaters this weekend. As we moved closer to *The Little Mermaid*’s release, it was pretty clear that this one was going to be a box office hit. The question was just how big of a hit.

The **Halle Bailey**\-led *Little Mermaid* scored a $95.5 million opening weekend in North America, just missing out on a $100 million three-day weekend but still beating the $91.5 million that the *Aladdin* remake opened with in 2019.

Does *The Little Mermaid* have the legs to keep pulling in moviegoers as we move into June? The film came up well short of *The Lion King*’s $191.8 million opening weekend, which led to that remake making $620.2 million domestically and $1.65 billion worldwide.

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## 2\. Fast X

**Weekend gross:* $23M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $108M* 
**Last weekend:* 1st* 
**Percent drop:* 66*

A 66 percent drop is not great for *Fast X*’s second weekend in theaters, but it’s in line with previous films in the *Fast & Furious* franchise. *Fast and Furious 6* fell 64 percent its second weekend in 2013, *Furious 7* fell 60 percent its second weekend in 2015, *The Fate of the Furious* fell 61 percent its second weekend in 2017, and *F9: The Fast Saga* fell 67 percent its second weekend.

## 3\. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

**Weekend gross:* $20M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $299.4M* 
**Last weekend:* 2nd* 
**Percent drop:* 38*

Meanwhile, *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3* continues to hold very well weekend to weekend, dropping just 38 percent between its third and fourth weekends in theaters. The third *Guardians* movie is now just a handful of change away from cracking the $300 million mark in North America. In terms of the *Guardians* movies themselves, *Vol. 3* it still trails its two predecessors on both the domestic and worldwide charts.

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## 4\. The Super Mario Bros. Movie

**Weekend gross:* $6.3M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $558.9M* 
**Last weekend:* 3rd* 
**Percent drop:* 35*

*The Super Mario Bros. Movie* has jumped up two spots on the worldwide box office chart since last weekend, passing *Incredibles 2* and Disney’s *Beauty and the Beast* remake in the process. With a $1,276,707,000 haul, *Mario* now sets its sights on *Frozen*’s $1,284,540,518 worldwide number.

## 5\. The Machine

**Weekend gross:* $4.9M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $4.9M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

Huh. I guess **Bert Kreischer** taking off his shirt every time he’s on camera isn’t enough of a gimmick to make a movie a hit …

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

## Next weekend

*Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*! *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*! *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*!

Sorry. I’m excited about this one. *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* is arguably the greatest Spider-Man movie (yes, sorry, *Spider-Man: No Way Home*) and is a groundbreaking animated film. The reactions I’ve seen online to early screenings of the sequel are universally positive, and it looks like the team behind these films has another iconic film in store for us with *Across the Spider-Verse*.

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