Retiring Guy's Digest: USA box office on 2nd weekend in April (2017-2023)

The USA box office on2nd weekend April 2023 is up 73% compared to last year when "Sonic the Hedgehog" was the top-grossing movie.

And it's up 22% compared to the 2017 peak when "Fate of the Furious" was the top-grossing movie.

Box Office Mojo

Variety, 4/9/2023

Wahoo! “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” racked up a blockbuster $146 million in its opening weekend and powered to $204.6 million in its first five days of release, squashing expectations and steamrolling the competition at the domestic box office.
The animated movie, a collaboration between Illumination, Nintendo and Universal, has landed a number of records, thanks to positive word-of-mouth, nostalgia for the popular video game series and a huge turnout from family audiences. It currently stands as the biggest opening weekend of the year, overtaking “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” ($106 million). It’s also the second-biggest debut ever for an animated title (surpassing the $135.1 million opening of 2016’s “Finding Dory”), as well as the highest-grossing debut ever for Illumination (beating the $115.7 million earned by 2015’s “Minions”).

Original 4/8/2023 post starts here

The USA box office on the Friday of the 1st weekend April 2023 is up 80% compared to last year when "Sonic the Hedgehog" was the top-grossing movie.

And it's up 9% compared to the 2017 peak when "Fate of the Furious" was the top-grossing movie.

Box Office Mojo

Variety, 4/8/2023

The Universal and Illumination film is still on track for a $195 million opening in North America over the five-day Easter weekend frame. That’s way ahead of the $150 million projections that were being reported at the start of the week. Even more impressively, “Super Mario Bros.” now looks to leap to a $368 million global debut. That would be the biggest ever opening for an animated film, though that comes with a huge caveat. The current record holder, 2019’s “Frozen II,” earned $358 million over a traditional three-day window

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