‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Sets Record-Breaking $204 Million Debut at the BO!!

At close to 10PM PST last night, we told you that Illumination/Universal’s Super Mario Bros was still raking in business. As of this morning, the feature take of the Nintendo game didn’t gross $56M, rather a near $57M,for what is now a $146.36M 3-day, massive $33,1K theater average, and a record 5-day of –wow– $204.6M, per Universal this AM. That kicks Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen‘s $200M Wednesday-Sunday opening to second place … Continue reading ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Sets Record-Breaking $204 Million Debut at the BO!!

‘Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Opens with $38.5 Million at the BO!!

Paramount/eOne’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is settling at $38.5M, after a -15% decline on Saturday of $13.1M. Though north of $30M tracking, it’s below that nice round high point of $40M. Global is better than we expected at $71.5M (we pegged $65M) with offshore territories delivering $33M from 58 markets. Does this opening rep the start of a franchise? Stateside, D&D outperformed its tracking over the past month, and still did not … Continue reading ‘Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Opens with $38.5 Million at the BO!!