Weekend Box Office - Memorial Day Edition - Not Exactly The Days of Yore

[AndyDursin]

Unofficial "start of summer" at the movies sees THE LITTLE MERMAID with an underwhelming (given $80 mil promo marketing campaign and expectations) start. Meanwhile it looks like the world has finally had enough of the FAST franchise as FAST X bombed in its 2nd weekend.

1) Little Mermaid (Dis) 4,320 theaters, Fri $38M, 3-day $95M, 4-day $117M/Wk 1

2) Fast X (Uni) 4,088 (+42) theaters, Fri $6.3M (-78%), 3-day $22.8M (-66%), 4-day $28.4M, Total $113.4M/Wk 2

3) Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (Dis) 3,940 (-510) theaters, Fri $5.4M (-36%) 3-day $20.6M (-36%) 4-day $26.6M, Total $306M/Wk 4

4) The Super Mario Bros Movie (Uni) 3,148 (-392) theaters, Fri $1.65M (-29%) 3-day $6.2M (-35%), 4-day $8.2M, Total $560.8M/Wk 8

5) The Machine (Leg/Sony) 2,409 theaters, Fri $2.2M 3-day $5.2M, 4-day $6.2M/Wk 1

6) About My Father (LG) 2,464 theaters, Fri $1.46M 3-day $4.1M 4-day $5M/Wk 1

7) Kandahar (OR/Briar) 2,105 theaters, Fri $920K 3-day $2.5M 4-day $3.1M /Wk 1

[AndyDursin]

On a side note -- Pixar's new effort has already been panned, called a "misfire" even by Variety:

https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/e ... 235626948/

[Monterey Jack]

Glad to see Mermaid underperforming (especially overseas), because we'll never be free of these goddamn remakes until they stop pulling in a billion worldwide.

Also insane that, in week EIGHT of release, Super Mario Bros. (which is already available on VOD) only fell 29% at the box office.