Last weekend was another encouraging one at the domestic box office with the dual releases of Mortal Kombat and Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train, both of which grossed north of $20 million and injected new life into theaters. Those films retained their top-two positioning in the current frame, but with Demon Slayer adding additional screens to its footprint, the anime swapped places with Mortal Kombat to take the top spot this go-round.
After opening to $21.14 million in its opening weekend, Funimation’s Demon Slayer dropped a steep 70% to bring in an estimated $6.42M in its sophomore frame from 1,905 locations – a count that includes several premium large format screens that were held by Mortal Kombat last weekend. That brings the R-rated anime to $32.22M after 11 days of release (including its opening-day gross two Thursdays ago), which already makes it the third highest-grossing anime film of all time in North America after 1999’s Pokemon: The First Movie ($85.74M) and 2000’s Pokemon the Movie 2000 ($43.76M). It surpassed the lifetime gross of 2019’s Dragon Ball Super: Broly ($30.71M) on Saturday.
Falling to second place, Warner Bros.’ Mortal Kombat took in an estimated $6.24M in its sophomore frame from 3,114 locations, a sharp drop of 73% from its opening gross of $23.3M. That’s a much steeper second-weekend descent than the 1995 adaptation of the long-running video game franchise, which dipped 55% in its second weekend (albeit in non-pandemic times). The video-game reboot now has $34.09M after ten days of release.
Compared with similar pandemic-era titles, the new Mortal Kombat’s sophomore slump is notably pronounced. In January, Warner Bros’ Wonder Woman 1984 fell 68% in its second weekend, while the studio’s Godzilla vs. Kong declined just 56% in its sophomore frame last month. All three were concurrently available on HBO Max.
The second-weekend declines of Demon Slayer and Mortal Kombat aren’t necessarily surprising given that both fall into traditionally front-loaded genres. Anime and video-game adaptations draw audiences made up largely of young males who tend to rush out on opening weekend, often leading to precipitous second-weekend declines for those genres.
Godzilla vs. Kong held steady in third place with an estimated $2.74M, a decline of 36% from last weekend. The Warner Bros. tentpole has $90.31M after five weeks of release.
Opening in fourth was the poorly-reviewed Open Road/Briarcliff horror title Separation, which debuted with a relatively disappointing $1.83M from 1,751 locations. That’s significantly less than The Unholy made in its debut frame in early April, when it grossed $3.15M from 1,850 theaters.
In fifth, Disney’s leggy Raya and the Last Dragon grossed an estimated $1.34M in its ninth weekend of release, bringing the total for the animated adventure to $41.58M.
Sixth place went to Universal’s Nobody, which brought in an estimated $1.26M in its sixth weekend of release. The Bob Odenkirk action title, which has had a relatively long tail in terms of pandemic box office, has $23.36M to date.
Sony/Screen Gems’ The Unholy took seventh place with an estimated $1.07M in its fifth weekend, bringing the total for the horror title to $13.13M.
Boasting the best per-screen average in the top 10 was Universal’s 10th anniversary re-release of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which took in an estimated $720,000 from just 152 locations for a per-screen average of $4,737 in eighth place.
Opening outside the top 10 in limited release was the BAFTA-nominated British comedy-drama Limbo, which took in an estimated $90,000 from 208 theaters.
OVERSEAS
Mortal Kombat grossed an estimated $3M from 39 international markets, bringing its overseas cume to $32.8M and its global total to $66.9M.
Godzilla vs. Kong brought in an estimated $2.7M from 42 markets for an international total of $325.1M and a global tally of $415.5M, including $185.5M in China.
| Title | Estimated weekend | % change | Locations | Location change | Average | Total | Weekend | Distributor |
| Demon Slayer The Movi… | $6,421,514 | -72% | 1,905 | 300 | $3,371 | $34,140,444 | 2 | FUNimation |
| Mortal Kombat | $6,235,000 | -73% | 3,114 | 41 | $2,002 | $34,087,000 | 2 | Warner Bros. |
| Godzilla vs. Kong | $2,740,000 | -36% | 2,753 | -103 | $995 | $90,310,000 | 5 | Warner Bros. |
| Separation | $1,831,000 | 1,751 | $1,046 | $1,831,000 | 1 | Open Road | ||
| Raya and the Last Dragon | $1,335,000 | -23% | 1,810 | -9 | $738 | $41,580,947 | 9 | Walt Disney |
| Nobody | $1,260,000 | -28% | 2,056 | -196 | $613 | $23,367,810 | 6 | Universal |
| The Unholy | $1,065,000 | -27% | 1,538 | -297 | $692 | $13,130,419 | 5 | Sony Pictures |
| Scott Pilgrim vs. The… | $720,000 | 152 | $4,737 | $32,331,316 | 560 | Universal | ||
| Tom and Jerry | $515,000 | -29% | 1,209 | -721 | $426 | $44,203,000 | 10 | Warner Bros. |
| Together Together | $313,051 | -41% | 659 | -6 | $475 | $1,018,378 | 2 | Bleecker Street |
| Four Good Days | $303,000 | 298 | $1,017 | $303,000 | 1 | Vertical Entertainment | ||
| The Girl Who Believes… | $195,000 | -44% | 728 | -213 | $268 | $2,767,725 | 5 | Atlas Distribution |
| The Croods: A New Age | $180,000 | -11% | 1,111 | -45 | $162 | $57,576,520 | 23 | Universal |
| The Father | $147,000 | 83% | 713 | 138 | $206 | $1,887,805 | 8 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| The Resort | $95,000 | 114 | $833 | $95,000 | 1 | Vertical Entertainment | ||
| Limbo | $90,000 | 208 | $433 | $90,000 | 1 | Focus Features | ||
| Voyagers | $79,000 | -54% | 937 | -341 | $84 | $3,104,325 | 4 | Lionsgate |
| Chaos Walking | $57,500 | -46% | 502 | -569 | $115 | $13,238,377 | 9 | Lionsgate |
| In the Earth | $54,400 | -74% | 215 | -356 | $253 | $958,150 | 3 | Neon |
| The War with Grandpa | $9,560 | -63% | 150 | -45 | $64 | $21,189,473 | 30 | 101 Studios |
| Gunda | $6,300 | -20% | 15 | 5 | $420 | $57,480 | 21 | Neon |
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