Illumination, the Universal animation arm, scores another massive hit with their video game adaptation The Super Mario Bros. Movie which makes its debut with the highest gross ever by an animated feature, take that Disney!

Director and star Ben Affleck takes his new movie Air to number 2 this weekend with a debut gross of $20 Million which is the directors second best gross after The Town which took $23 Million on its debut.

John Wick: Chapter 4 falls to number 3 this week while Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves falls from its debut of number 1 last week to number 4 this week, it seems to be hitting a similar audience to The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Scream VI falls to number 5 while Paint about the famous painter Bob Ross is new at number 9 with $750,000

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 7th - 9th April 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 grosses $204,628,865 over its debut weekend
• The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie is a new entry at Number 2 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $20,214,826 over its debut weekend

John Wick: Chapter 4

• The movie goes down the chart to Number 3 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $14,600,000 over the weekend, a 48% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $147,066,799 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum which took $125,752,812 at the box office after 3 weeks of release.

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves


• The movie goes down the chart to Number 4 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $14,500,000 over the weekend, a 61% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $62,277,540 over 2 weeks of release
• The movie is the 11th top grossing film so far in 2023

Scream VI

• The movie goes down the chart to Number 5 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $3,315,000 over the weekend, a 38% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $103,846,400 over 5 weeks of release
• The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Scream which took $73,298,673 at the box office after 5 weeks of release.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

1. The Super Mario Bros. Movie - $204,630,730
2. Air - $20,204,133
3. John Wick: Chapter 4 - $14,466,361
4. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - $13,881,006
5. Scream VI - $3,426,888
6. His Only Son - $2,806,537
7. Creed III - $2,759,018
8. Shazam! Fury of the Gods - $1,561,023
9. A Thousand and One - $599,990
10. Paint - $570,512
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Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.

After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.

6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.

8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.