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\u201cScary Movie\u201d opened with $55 million at the domestic box office over the weekend, according to early numbers first reported by the Hollywood<\/a> trade publications<\/a>\u2014breaking a record for the biggest opening weekend for the horror-comedy franchise, while several of the year\u2019s biggest releases broke records of their own.<\/p>\n Horror films had another strong weekend at North American theaters, and \u201cScary Movie\u201d and \u201cObsession\u201d both broke records.<\/p>\n Getty Images for Paramount PicturesKey Facts<\/p>\n \u201cScary Movie,\u201d the sixth installment in the long-running horror comedy series that began in 2000, grossed about $55 million domestically and came in first over the weekend, while pulling in another $50.5 million in international markets.<\/p>\n \u201cObsession,\u201d the horror feature directed by former YouTuber Curry Barker, only posted a 7% decline for its fourth weekend in theaters\u2014a rare feat for the film that has now grossed $152.1 million in North America and almost $200 million globally, making it distributor Focus Features\u2019 most successful film at the box office ever.<\/p>\n \u201cMichael,\u201d the Michael Jackson biopic that already broke biopic records<\/a> when it debuted in April, grossed another $7.7 million in North America over the weekend\u2014breaking another record as it becomes distributor Lionsgate\u2019s highest-grossing film worldwide, surpassing \u201cThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie,\u201d the animated feature adaptation of the beloved Nintendo character that debuted at the beginning of April, became the first film of 2026 to surpass $1 billion globally at the box office.<\/p>\n HOW DID OTHER MOVIES PERFORM THIS WEEKEND??<\/p>\n Despite a widespread marketing campaign, Amazon MGM\u2019s \u201cMasters of the Universe,\u201d the most recent adaptation of the Mattel franchise, only grossed about $29.3 million over its opening weekend, falling a distant second behind \u201cScary Movie.\u201d It\u2019s unclear if the new He-Man adaptation will turn out to be a flop at this point, but production costs reportedly reached as high as $200 million before marketing, Variety<\/a> reported. \u201cBackrooms,\u201d another new horror film directed by Kane Parsons, also a young director with early success on YouTube, grossed another $25.9 million over its second weekend in theaters. \u201cBackrooms\u201d debuted last weekend with $81 million in North America, breaking the record<\/a> for biggest debut for its distributor A24. \u201cObsession\u201d came in a close fourth place, grossing another $25.6 million. Finally, another YouTube success story broke through to take fifth place at the domestic box office this weekend. \u201cThe Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act,\u201d an animated feature based on a viral YouTube webseries, grossed an estimated $12.7 million at domestic theaters.<\/p>\n Big Number<\/p>\n $2.3 billion. That\u2019s how much both \u201cSuper Mario\u201d films have grossed so far, following the first film\u2019s worldwide blockbuster success in 2023 for a $1.3 billion global gross. Even though Universal Pictures has only released two feature films starring the iconic Nintendo character, the franchise is already the ninth-biggest animated series of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline \u201cScary Movie\u201d opened with $55 million at the domestic box office over the weekend, according to early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[154757,1239,146,2085,85,46,65344,76011,1150,154219,179725],"class_list":["post-481404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-backrooms","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-masters-of-the-universe","tag-michael","tag-obsession","tag-scary-movie","tag-super-mario-galaxy-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}