Mortal Kombat and Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train Team Up for the Best Weekend in a Year

Mortal Kombat

It was the best weekend since the weekend of March 13, 2020. Two new films each earned over $15 million to open and combined alone for almost beating that amount from March.

Mortal Kombat had a flawless victory debuting in theaters and on HBO Max. The split opening was first at the weekend box office earning an estimated $22.5 million. That amount was right about the original film’s opening of $23.3 million in 1995.

The film did well internationally as well earning a reported $27.6 million to bring its worldwide total to $50.1 million for the weekend.

Demon Slayers the Movie: Mugen Train opened in second place with $19.5 million. The film has been playing internationally for about six months where it has earned a massive $388.2 million. Worldwide, the film has earned $407.7 million.

Godzilla vs. Kong was knocked down into third place earning an estimated $4.2 million to bring its domestic total to $86.6 million. Internationally, the film grossed about $10.3 million over the week to bring that total to $320 million. The movie has earned $406.6 million worldwide making it one of the top-grossing films of the year and top film domestically.

Nobody came in fourth place earning $1.9 million in its fifth week. The film has now grossed $21.7 million domestically. Internationally, the film grossed about $900,000 over the week to bring its total to $16.5 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $38.2 million.

Rounding out the top five was Raya and the Last Dragon. The film earned an estimated $1.7 million to bring its domestic total to $39.8 million. The film also added about $14 million to its international total over the week. Worldwide, the film has grossed $111.9 million.

Initial numbers have 39 films earning $57,030,222 from 24,882 theaters. That’s a massive increase from last weekend’s 44 films which earned $19,358,848 from 23,481 theaters. The average earning was $2,121.50 this past weekend, an increase from the previous weekend’s $824.45.