Photo credit: Disney & Marvel Studios (“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The superhero sequel from Disney and Marvel Studios debuted at $114.0 million. That’s in the middle of Boxoffice PRO’s pre-release guidance, which was in the $105 million to $125 million range.
It is +20% above 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy ($94.3M) but -22% below 2017’s sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($146.5M).
Vol. 3 deserves the #58 opening weekend ever.
It’s also #17 all-time in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) – in the bottom half of the MCU in that regard.
The estimated target demographic was 60% male and 52% over 25 years old. These numbers are both comparable to February’s Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (61% male and 53% aged 25+).
Overseas
Vol. 3 opened at $168.1 million overseas and $282.1 million worldwide, led by $28.1 million in China.
A comparison to Vol. 2 would not be accurate as this film had a staggered launch to international markets from late April 2017.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
weekend
After four consecutive frames at the top, Universal’s animated video game adaptation finally falls back to second place, falling -54% to $18.6 million and second place.
The performance was strong enough to make it the No. 17’s fifth weekend ever. Mario now also earns his fifth all-time animated weekend at #3.
domestic total
With $518.1 million domestically to date, Mario is the 17th-biggest film of all time.
Among animated films, it always ranks 3rd domestically, only behind:
Among post-pandemic films, it ranks 4th domestically, behind only:
Overseas / worldwide total
Mario has earned $637.1 million overseas and $1.15 billion worldwide.
Mario is currently the #25 film of all time worldwide.
It’s also the #6 animated title of all time worldwide, only behind:
It ranks #4 among post-pandemic films globally, behind only:
Evil Dead Rise
Warner Brothers’ Horror sequel debuted -5% under 2013’s Evil Dead but has held up better, first surpassing its predecessor by the same release date from the respective sixth day.
Now in its third weekend, the film falls -53% to $5.7 million and third place.
At $54.1M, Rise is 11% ahead of its predecessor ($48.4M).
Rise has earned $60.7 million overseas and $114.8 million worldwide, surpassing 2013’s $99.0 million worldwide for Evil Dead.
are you there god it’s me margaret
Last weekend, Lionsgate’s coming-of-age comedy came in third with $6.7 million.
That was below Boxoffice PRO’s pre-release forecast, which was in the $9 million to $17 million range.
This weekend, it falls -49% to $3.3M and fourth place.
That’s steeper than the -38% drop in year two for The Edge of Seventeen, a similar teenage theme from 2016 also written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig.
Sisu
Last weekend, Lionsgate’s R-rated action thriller debuted in tenth place with $3.3 million. Sisu only played in 1,006 theaters, less than a third of the most widely distributed releases on the market.
Now in its second frame, it falls a steep -67% to $1.0M.
Compared to some other R-rated action thrillers in the last year or two, this is steeper than the second drops for:
- Powerful Night 2022 (-35%)
- 2021: The Forever Purge (-43%)
- 2022 The Northman (-48%)
- Cocaine Bear in February (-52%)
- Bullet Train 2022 (-55%)
- The Beast of 2022 (-58%)
- John Wick from March: Chapter 4 (-62%)
Great George Foreman
Last weekend, Sony Pictures’ faith-based boxing biopic wasn’t exactly a knockout, with a $2.9 million debut in eleventh place.
This weekend it falls a steep -73% to $800,000.
That’s steeper than some other post-pandemic faith-based sports titles:
- American Outsider 2021 (-33%)
- Father Stu from 2022 (-38%)
- 2016’s Bleed for This (-61%)
To read Box office PRO‘s interview with Great George Foreman Director George Tillman Jr. here:
https://www.boxofficepro.com/heart-of-a-champion-interview-with-big-george-foreman-director-george-tillman-jr/
weekend comparisons
Total box office this weekend was around $155.2 million, meaning:
weekend | In total | This weekend is: | Leader |
Last weekend | $100.0M | +55% | The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Fourth Frame ($40.8 million) |
Same weekend in 2022 | $222.3M | -30% | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($187.4 million) |
Same weekend 2019 | $199.8M | -22% | Avengers: Endgame, second frame ($147.3M) |
YTD comparisons
Year-to-date box office receipts are approximately $2.77 billion, which are:
Year | YTD overall | 2023 YTD now: | 2023 YTD after last weekend: | trend |
2022 | $2.05 billion | +35.1% | +37.0% | down |
2019 | $3.70 billion | -25.0% | -23.6% | down |
top dealer
Grouped by parent company, the YTD executives are:
Disney seems poised to retake the lead in May or June thanks to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and The Little Mermaid.
Estimates for the studio weekend on Sunday:
| title | Expected weekend | % change | Locations | relocation | Average | In total | weekend | distributor |
| Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 | $114,000,000 | 4,450 | $25,618 | $114,000,000 | 1 | Disney | ||
| The Super Mario Bros. Movie | $18,600,000 | -54% | 3,909 | -295 | $4,758 | $518,128,000 | 5 | Universal |
| Evil Dead Rise | $5,730,000 | -53% | 3,036 | -381 | $1,887 | $54,101,000 | 3 | Warner Bros. |
| are you there god it’s me margaret | $3,380,000 | -50% | 3,343 | $1,011 | $12,647,414 | 2 | lion gate | |
| love again | $2,425,000 | 2,703 | $897 | $2,425,000 | 1 | Sony images | ||
| John Wick: Chapter 4 | $2,359,000 | -52% | 1,658 | -823 | $1,423 | $180,056,266 | 7 | lion gate |
| Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | $1,515,000 | -64% | 1,751 | -958 | $865 | $90,937,000 | 6 | Outstanding |
| AIR | $1,396,169 | -65% | 1,632 | -770 | $855 | $50,247,000 | 5 | Amazon Studios |
| Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant | $1,222,129 | -66% | 1,807 | -824 | $676 | $14,780,000 | 3 | MGM [Amazon] |
| Sisu | $1,083,000 | -67% | 1,006 | $1,077 | $5,548,199 | 2 | lion gate | |
| Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | $808,000 | 6839% | 185 | 145 | $4,368 | $213,791,187 | 12 | Disney |
| Great George Foreman | $800,000 | -73% | 3,054 | $262 | $4,606,000 | 2 | Sony images | |
| The Pope’s Exorcist | $425,000 | -76% | 606 | -1,344 | $701 | $19,001,000 | 4 | Sony images |
| shameful | $375,000 | -34% | 268 | -65 | $1,399 | $4,040,815 | 4 | SDG |
| Beau is scared | $333,543 | -78% | 510 | -1,615 | $654 | $6,743,300 | 4 | A24 |
| polite society | $216,000 | -74% | 702 | -225 | $308 | $1,333,000 | 2 | focus functions [Universal] |
| suzume | $205,000 | -63% | 116 | -324 | $1,767 | $10,249,000 | 4 | Sony images |
| Renfield | $170,000 | -87% | 380 | -1,520 | $447 | $16,976,000 | 4 | Universal |
| Knight | $82,000 | -87% | 155 | -1,126 | $529 | $3,167,774 | 3 | searchlight [Disney] |
| Turn up | $44,853 | -43% | 102 | -13 | $440 | $642,105 | 5 | A24 |
| joy land | $30,421 | -13% | 34 | 2 | $895 | $185,430 | 5 | oscilloscope |
| Avatar: The Way of Water | $27,000 | -67% | 35 | -75 | $771 | $684,012,847 | 21 | 20th century studios [Disney] |
| Chile ’76 | $16,038 | 2 | $8,019 | $16,038 | 1 | Cinema Lorber | ||
| The Eight Mountains | $16,022 | -52% | 4 | 2 | $4,006 | $57,356 | 2 | Janus Films |
| The melt goes on forever | $6,250 | 1 | $6,250 | $6,250 | 1 | greenwich | ||
| other people’s children | $5,323 | -65% | 8th | 1 | $665 | $48,345 | 3 | Jukebox Movies |