It continues raking in coins.
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has sat atop the box office for a complete month after hauling in one other $8.9 million on Friday alone, in keeping with IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.
The movie based on the favored Nintendo game has earned greater than $458 million within the US since opening on April 5 — and is projected to hit the $1 billion global milestone on Sunday, in keeping with the Hollywood Reporter.
The flick — which The Post described as “lousy” — can be just the tenth animated movie to achieve this.
The demonic horror movie “Evil Dead Rise,” the newest within the five-part “Evil Dead” series, ranked got here in second for an additional week with its $3.6 million take.
The film dubbed “gory-as-hell” by The Post notably uses 1,720 gallons of faux blood to drag off the “right balance of hokey cheese … and the confident shots and computer graphics 2023 audiences expect.”
“Are you There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” the movie adaptation of the 1970 Judy Blume classic starring Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel McAdams as a mother-daughter pair navigating religion and adolescence, got here in third with $2.25 million on its opening day Friday.
“Star Wars” Episode VI – Return of the Jedi,” back in theaters for its fortieth anniversary, earned just over $1.75 million on its single-day rerelease across 1,364 theaters to nab fourth place.
Also cracking into the box office’s top five was “Sisu,” the action-packed Nazi-killing adventure starring Jorma Tommila, which earned $1.4 million on its opening day Friday.
