Hey, Hollywood! Are you taking note? Good, strong, clean movies continue to (ahem) clean up at the box office.
For the third straight weekend, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie topped all comers at the box-office, collecting another $35 million worth of pixelated coins in the U.S. and Canada en route to its latest victory. All told, the film has earned more than $355.2 million in North America, and $747.5 million worldwide. That should be enough to buy an extra power star or two.
But Nintendo’s famous pair of plumbers aren’t the only ones exploring the upper echelons of the box office galaxy. Project Hail Mary’s cinematic rocket ship continues to soar as well. The Ryan Gosling vehicle earned another $20.5 million this weekend stateside, pushing its own total gross to $285.1 million. Toss in another $288 million in overseas earnings, and Project Hail Mary has banked a stellar $573.1 million.
Oh, and Project Hail Mary continues to hold surprisingly strong, losing just 15% of its weekend-over-weekend audience. In its five weeks of release, the film hasn’t slipped lower than No. 2. This astrophage-powered film doesn’t look like it’ll astro-fade anytime soon.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy proved to be the weekend’s biggest newcomer, but let’s be honest: This R-rated horror flick was buried by the competition, earning just $13.5 million domestically and $34 million worldwide. (It’s an illustration that gross films don’t necessarily gross a lot, financially speaking.) Sure, the film could have an unexpected surge in the weeks to come. But from where we sit today, this looks like a wrap for The Mummy.
The Drama finished in fourth place with $4.8 million, finishing about a million ahead of fifth-place You, Me & Tuscany ($3.8 million). Another family friendly flick, Hoppers, took home sixth place with $2.9 million.
Another newcomer, the R-rated thriller Normal, finished seventh with just under $2.7 million—a fittingly unremarkable finish for a film with such an unremarkable name.
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