{"id":661578,"date":"2026-05-10T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661578\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:41:10","slug":"mortal-kombat-ll-topples-the-devil-wears-prada-2-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661578\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat ll topples The Devil Wears Prada 2 at box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mortal Kombat II has fought its way to the top of the box office on its opening day in the US.<br \/>The fantasy film, a sequel to the 2021 original, raked in $17 million (\u00a312.5 million) on Friday, according to Box Office Mojo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fourth instalment in the franchise based on the popular video game, which the New York Post dubbed &#8220;an onscreen bucket of slop&#8221;, stars Karl Urban as Johnny Cage and Adeline Rudolph as Kitana. It focuses on Earthrealm&#8217;s champions participating in a high-stakes tournament in Outworld against evil emperor Shao Kahn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The film surpassed The Devil Wears Prada 2, which moved down a notch to second spot. The sequel to the 2006 comedy, which sees Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt reprising their roles, enjoyed the third-best domestic debut of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In third place was the Michael Jackson biopic Michael, which was still making the big bucks with $8.8 million (\u00a36.5 million) on its third Friday in cinemas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The film has made history as the second music biopic to surpass the $500 million (\u00a3367 million) mark globally after Bohemian Rhapsody, Screen Rant reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft &#8211; The Tour Live in 3D, a concert film featuring performances from the singer&#8217;s 2025 tour, took fourth spot, followed by The Sheep Detectives starring Hugh Jackman in fifth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat II has fought its way to the top of the box office on its opening day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[319594,64,63,134,319593,193579,344,139122],"class_list":["post-661578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-adeline-rudolph","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-johnny-cage","tag-karl-urban","tag-movies","tag-the-new-york-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}