Halle Bailey attends the Australian premiere of “The Little Mermaid” at the State Theater on May 22, 2023, in Sydney, Australia.
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“The Little Mermaid” made audiences want to be in the ocean over Memorial Day weekend.
by Disney The live-action remake of the 1989 animated classic easily beat the competition, grossing $95.5 million across 4,320 theaters in North America, the studio estimated Sunday.
And Disney estimates the movie starring Halle Bailey as the famous mermaid Ariel and Melissa McCarthy as arch-enemy sea witch Ursula will hit $117.5 million by the time the holiday season ends. . It ranks as the fifth-largest Memorial Day weekend opening ceremony ever.
It replaces “Fast X” in the top spot. The 10th installment of the “Fast and Furious” franchise starring Vin Diesel has lagged behind the series’ recent releases, bringing in $23 million domestically for a gross of $108 million. la for two weeks for Universal Pictures.
In its fourth weekend, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 by Disney and Marvel earned about $20 million in North America to take third place. It has now made $299 million domestically.
Fourth place went to Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”, which continued to reach new levels in its eighth week of release. Now available to rent on VOD, the film still earned $6.3 million in theaters. Its cumulative $559 million total makes Mario and Luigi the top earners of the year so far.
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The Machine, an action comedy starring popular comedian Bert Kreischer, finished fifth with $4.9 million domestically. And About My Father, the comedy starring Sebastian Maniscalco and Robert De Niro, came in sixth with $4.3 million.
Ticket sales are estimated Friday through Sunday in theaters in the United States and Canada, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.
1. “The Little Mermaid”, $95.5 million.
2. “Fast X”, $23 million.
3. “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” $20 million.
4. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” $6.3 million.
5. The Machine, $4.9 million.
6. About My Father, $4.3 million.
7. “Kandahar,” $2.4 million.
8. “You Hurt My Feelings,” 1.4 million.
9. “Rise of Evil”, $1 million.
10. “Book Club, Next Chapter”, $920,000.
Disclosure: Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal, the parent company of Universal Pictures and CNBC.
