Will The Horror Movie Bubble Burst? Weekend Box Office and Max
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On the April 17, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Weekend Box Office, The Horror Movie Bubble and HBO Max’s New Name Max.
Opening Banter:
In The News:
- Ryan: The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Now The Biggest Movie Of The Year At The Box Office
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie Hits $500 Million In A Week, Now The Top Video Game Movie Of All Time
- Renfield's Box Office Is Off To A Disappointing Start Against Super Mario Bros.
- Jason Blum Thinks The Success Of Smile Has Created A Horror Bubble That's Ready To Burst
- Blumhouse's Future Is Riding On The Exorcist, Jason Blum's 'Riskiest' Movie Yet
Mid-Roll Sponsor break: “we’re going to take a quick break, and we’ll be right back”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Monday, April 17th, |
| 0:04.4 | 2023 on today's episode. We're gonna discuss the latest film and |
| 0:08.4 | TV news. This slash film editorial director Peter Sorata and joining me on this podcast is slash film staff writer and |
| 0:15.2 | box office analyst ride Scott. |
| 0:17.2 | Hey everyone how's it going? |
| 0:19.2 | Well it is Monday Ryan which means we are and we're going to talk about box office in, you know, |
| 0:25.9 | Super Mario has been wreaking havoc in the multiplexes. |
| 0:30.7 | Why don't you tell us about it? |
| 0:32.3 | Yeah, so perhaps not surprising. |
| 0:35.0 | The Super Mario Brothers movie won the second weekend handily. |
| 0:39.0 | But what's crazy is so most of this morning the number that was being cited was 87 million |
| 0:46.5 | For its second weekend however that number is actually 92 million so it way over way outper performed expectations meaning it only dropped 37% which is nuts |
| 0:58.4 | So it is already made 700 million dollars worldwide and it is already the highest grossing movie worldwide period outgrossing a movie in China called Red I'm so sorry, |
| 1:15.0 | I'm... Wait, you said this the highest grossed movie worldwide period? |
| 1:20.0 | Of 2023. |
| 1:21.0 | Okay, okay. |
| 1:22.0 | Sorry, of the year year there's a there red sea something I'm so sorry I'm |
| 1:26.9 | forgetting the but it's not listed on box office mojo but there was a movie in |
| 1:30.7 | China that had made like $677 million. |
| 1:33.5 | And so this is now overtaken that. |
| 1:36.2 | So it's very well on its way to a billion. |
| 1:39.7 | And that's even with a terrible showing in China, by the way. |
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