Mamma Mia! Here he goes again! My, my! How can we resist him?

Our number one film, to the shock of no one on the planet, is The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. No Pratt-falls here, as the video game mega-blockbuster got a high score of $131 million over the three-day weekend and $190 million since opening on Wednesday. Not to get dramatic, but this is clearly the death of cinema, as I hate when audiences go to the theater to have fun. It’s worse than AI slop! Yuck!

The only “downside” here (apart from this being the worst movie made by anyone ever, at least since Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which I used to believe was the worst movie made by anyone ever, because Rotten Tomatoes told me so, and I’m a free thinker) is that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie isn’t quite as massive as The Super Mario Bros. Movie was when it premiered in 2023, but really, that’s being nitpicky. Galaxy is already the biggest Hollywood release of the year globally and will blast past Project Hail Mary with ease in a matter of days stateside. Mario also has April pretty much to itself until Michael dances up to the plate at the end of the month.

Our other new release, The Drama, wasn’t quite left at the alter, but it’s not exactly setting the world on fire either with $14.2 million. That’s great for an A24 release (though maybe not so great for a holiday weekend opening), but really, the lifespan of this drama will be decided once word-of-mouth kicks in. This is “uncomfortable comedy” in the same vein as last year’s Friendship, and for some reason, everyone in the press is insisting on calling it a rom-com. Have people…forgotten what a rom-com is? Runaway Bride and Sweet Home Alabama are rom-coms. The Drama…doesn’t seem to be? But I dunno. Maybe I’m just getting old. The main “gimmick” for the marketing here is an extremely dark plot twist that takes place around the midway point, and while it’s supposed to be a big secret, mainstream outlets are already vague-spoiling it in their article headlines, so that’s thoughtful of them.

Anyway, the top ten, via Box Office Mojo (note that this chart does not reflect actuals, hence the numbers on Mario and Drama being slightly different from the ones I reported)