As Disney continue to milk their animated back catalogue its time for
The Little Mermaid from the start of their "renaissance" period to get the live action remake.
The movie takes a reasonable $95.5 Million over the 3 day weekend and $117.5 Million over the 4 day memorial weekend which is considered the start of the summer season.
Fast X drops to second place after a single weekend at the top, but the movie never stood a chance against the might of a Disney movie.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is still hanging on to a top 5 place and after 8 weeks has taken $558 Million.
Mark Hamil stars in The Machine which is new at number 5 this weekend with $4.9 Million and the Robert De Niro comedy About My Father is one place below with $4.25 Million.
Also new this weekend is Kandahar at number 7 with $2.4 Million and You Hurt My Feelings at number 8 with $1.3 Million.
US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 26th - 28th May 2023
The Little Mermaid~2023
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weekends US box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the US box office.
- It has a total gross of $95,500,000 after 1 weekend of release
- The movie is the 10th top grossing film so far in 2023
Fast X
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 2 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $23,020,000 over the weekend, a 66% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $107,955,340 after 2 weekends of release
- The movie is the 9th top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to Fast & Furious 9 which took $117,103,960 at the box office after 2 weekends of release.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 3 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $19,950,000 over the weekend, a 38% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $299,425,817 after 4 weekends of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which took $334,223,048 at the box office after 4 weekends of release.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 4 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $6,270,000 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $558,881,975 after 8 weekends of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is the 14th top grossing movie of all time in the US.
The Machine~2023
- The movie is a new entry at Number 5 on this weekends US box office
- It has a total gross of $4,900,000 after 1 weekend of release
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