“Super Mario Bros.: The Movie”the animated film based on the famous video game character, won the box office in the United States for the second consecutive weekend with a collection of 87 million dollars, which places it in the best debut for an animated sequel, the press reported. specialized.
Ticket sales for the video game adaptation are down just 41 percent since its release and have grossed $678 million worldwide so far.
According to the portal Variety“Mario” has already become the largest video game adaptation in history, surpassing the totals of “Warcraft: The First Meeting of Two Worlds” of 2016 (439 million) and “Pokémon: Detective Pikachu” (449 million).
Second place this week went to “The Pope’s Exorcists”the thriller starring Russell Crowe which was slightly below expectations with 9.1 million, followed by the action film starring Keanu Reeves, “John Wick: Chapter 4”with 7.925 million dollars in its fourth opening weekend.
Contrary to expectations, “renfield”the horror comedy in which Nicolas Cage stars Count Dracula came in fourth with a disappointing $7.7 million from 3,375 locations.
Finally, airthe sports drama directed by Ben Affleckrounded out the top five with $7.7 million in 3,507 theaters.
“Super Mario Bros: The Movie” exceeded one million viewers in Argentina
“Super Mario Bros: The Movie” This past week, it exceeded one million viewers in the country’s theaters, while the production “La extorción” remained among the three most popular films.
“Super Mario…”, based on the Nintendo game and directed by aaron horvath and Michael Jelenicwas seen by 365,731 people between Thursday and Sunday, reaching a total of 1,282,787, since its premiere on April 6.
While the thriller “Extortion”of Martino Zaidelis and starring William Francellasummoned 92,000 people in the last four days and reached 252,351 accumulated in two weeks.
The podium completed it, as the second most viewed film, “The Pope’s Exorcist”horror film with Oscar winner Russell Crowe in the title role, under the direction of Julius Avery. In its debut week, it brought together 97,546 people in the theater, according to a report by the Ultracine consultancy.
Source: Ambito
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