{"id":418165,"date":"2026-05-08T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418165\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:52:09","slug":"mortal-kombat-ii-rings-up-5-2m-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418165\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mortal Kombat II&#8217; Rings up $5.2M Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNew Line\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mortal-kombat-ii\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mortal-kombat-ii\" data-tag=\"mortal-kombat-ii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mortal Kombat II<\/a> stepped into the ring last night and rang up $5.2M previews which isn\u2019t that far from the amount the studio clocked a year ago in previews from Final Destination: Bloodlines ($5.5M). That highly anticipated horror film opened to $51.6M. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAll of Mortal Kombat II\u2018s cash is from Thursday. Showtimes began at 3PM. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tForecasts for the R-rated Mortal Kombat II came down into the $40Ms and the question remains whether the second weekend of Devil Wears Prada 2 will beat it, that sequel expected to get a big boost from Mothers Day. Lionsgate\u2019s Michael as well is expected to bring in a female crowd on Sunday as well. Disney has pushed out extra spots this week for Devil Wears Prada 2 targeting Mothers Day moviegoers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStill, a $40M+ start for the Simon McQuoid directed sequel based on the Midway videogame is a great start considering the previous 2021 installment saw its opening and grosses siphoned from a Covid theatrical day-and-date release on HBO Max with $23.3M. That movie finaled at $42.3M domestic and the opening for Mortal Kombat II could outstrip that entire gross alone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tParamount\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft\" data-tag=\"billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft<\/a>: The Tour (Live in 3D) directed by Eilish and James Cameron brought in $2.2M in overall previews including last night and April 29 early access shows at\u00a02,350\u00a0locations.\u00a0The pic is expected to bring in $6M-$9M. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAmazon MGM Studios\u2019 Sheep Detectives held previews last night which started at 2PM as well as earlier previews. All in, it was $1M. The pic is expected to open to around $12M. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tmore\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Line\u2019s Mortal Kombat II stepped into the ring last night and rang up $5.2M previews which isn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[214913,156,20532,409,111,139,69,90563],"class_list":["post-418165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft","tag-entertainment","tag-mortal-kombat-ii","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-devil-wears-prada-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}