Box Office – May 26-28, 2023: THE LITTLE MERMAID, FAST X, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3, & More

Box Office May 26-28, 2023

The theatrical movie box office results for May 26, 2023 through May 28, 2023 have been released.

The Box Office

The Little Mermaid premiered in the Number One spot at the United States box office over the weekend with $95.5 Million so far.

Fast X was Second at the box office over the weekend with $23 Million (a 66% drop from last weekend) for $107.9 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $507.2 Billion.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 was Third at the box office over the weekend with $19.9 Million (a 38% drop from last weekend) for $299.4 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $731 Million.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie was Fourth at the box office over the weekend with $6.2 Million (a 35% drop from last weekend) for $558.8 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $1.27 Billion.

The Machine premiered in Fifth Place at the box office in the United States with $4.9 Million so far.

These films: About My Father (which premiered this weekend), Kandahar (which premiered this weekend), You Hurt My Feelings (which premiered this weekend), Evil Dead Rise, and Book Club: The Next Chapter rounded out the top ten respectively.

Movies That Opened This Weekend

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

The Little Mermaid is a 2023 American musical fantasy film directed by Rob Marshall from a screenplay written by David Magee.

Co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Lucamar Productions, and Marc Platt Productions, it is a live-action adaptation of Disney’s 1989 animated film of the same name, itself loosely based on the 1837 fairy tale of the same title by Hans Christian Andersen.

The film stars Halle Bailey in the titular role, alongside Jonah Hauer-King, Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay, Noma Dumezweni, Art Malik, Javier Bardem and Melissa McCarthy.

The Little Mermaid follows a mermaid princess Ariel who is fascinated with the human world and makes a deal with a treacherous sea witch Ursula to trade her voice to human legs in order to impress Prince Eric, who is saved from a shipwreck, before the time runs out.

The Machine is a 2023 American action comedy film directed by Peter Atencio inspired by the 2016 stand-up routine of the same name created by Bert Kreischer.

The film stars Kreischer as a fictionalized version of himself, with Mark Hamill, Jimmy Tatro, Iva Babi?, Stephanie Kurtzuba and Jessica Gabor.

About My Father is a 2023 American comedy film directed by Laura Terruso from a screenplay by Sebastian Maniscalco and Austen Earl.

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The film stars Maniscalco and is loosely based on his life and his relationship with his father, played by Robert De Niro. Leslie Bibb, Anders Holm, David Rasche, and Kim Cattrall co-star in supporting roles.

Kandahar is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Mitchell LaFortune.

The film stars Gerard Butler (who is also a producer on the film), and features a supporting cast that includes Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, Bahador Foladi, Nina Toussaint-White, Vassilis Koukalani, Mark Arnold, Corey Johnson, and Travis Fimmel.

You Hurt My Feelings is a 2023 American comedy-drama film written, directed and produced by Nicole Holofcener. It stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed and Jeannie Berlin.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of: The Boogeyman, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will be Number One at the box office.

The History of Box Office (and Profit Measurement)

“A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket.

By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a metonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives. The term is also used to refer to a ticket office at an arena or a stadium.

Box office business can be measured in the terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales (revenue). The projection and analysis of these earnings is greatly important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry.

To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare the box office gross with the production budget, because the movie theater keeps nearly half of the gross on average. The split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks.

Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a “house allowance” or “house nut”. It is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger. The distributor’s share of the box office gross is often referred to as the “distributor rentals”, especially for box office reporting of older films.”

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