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US Box Office Weekend Report 26th - 28th May 2023: The Little Mermaid live action remake makes its debut with $95.5 Million over 3 day weekend

The Little Mermaid
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 Box Office QuickView

  • Number 1 - The Little Mermaid (1st Weekend)
  • Highest debut - The Little Mermaid (@1)
  • Longest run - Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania (15 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($558,881,975)
  • Total US top 15 this weekend - $161092813

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 26th - 28th May 2023

The Little Mermaid

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
  • 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 and Furious 9 which took $117,103,960 at the box office after 2 weekends of release.
  • 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 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

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

  1. The Little Mermaid - $95,578,040
  2. Fast X - $23,028,305
  3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - $20,813,870
  4. The Super Mario Bros. Movie - $6,415,770
  5. The Machine - $5,000,545
  6. About My Father - $4,321,148
  7. Kandahar - $2,325,388
  8. You Hurt My Feelings - $1,389,158
  9. Evil Dead Rise - $1,059,006
  10. Book Club 2: The Next Chapter - $869,635
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