The Easter holiday weekend may be over, but that doesn’t mean it’s game over for Illumination/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Movie which took in an impressive $20.1M on Monday. That number was easily the best Monday ever for a Lighting title, beating the $19.6M Monday earned by sing on Dec. 26, 2016.
Monday was a great day for movie viewing with a good chuck of K-12 schools at 40% on spring break, up from 80% on Good Friday. Colleges at the break yesterday fell 10%, down from Friday’s 31%.
A total of six days running on Super Mario Bros is $224.7M. It wouldn’t be surprising, especially given how Universal has kept these family pictures in wide release for months even after they hit PVOD, to see Super Mario Bros grossed $500M-$600M by the end of its domestic run.
In other high, Super Mario Bros was the second best Monday ever for a Universal title after Jurassic World‘s $25.3M (June 15, 2015). For April, Super Mario Bros had the third best Monday ever after Avengers: Endgame (April 29, 2019) which grossed $36.8M and Avengers: Infinity War (April 30, 2018) which made $24.7M. Super Mario also saw the second highest Monday of 2023 so far Avatar: The Way of Waterby (Jan. 2) $21.4M.
Amazon/Artists Equity/Skydance Sports/Mandalay’s Air saw $1.5M yesterday in fourth bringing its six-day total to $21.7M. by Lionsgate John Wick: Chapter 4 finished second with $1.64M yesterday in its third Monday for a total of $148.5M. Paramount/eOne’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves made $1.54M in third place on its second Monday for a running cume of $63.1M.
