Disney's latest live action movie The Little Mermaid~2023 gets a release in 52 countries and takes �163.8 Million to makes its debut at the top of the global box office.
Also new this weekend is The Machine~2023 at 6, About My Father at number 7, Kandahar at number 9, Rohan Kishibe Goes to the Louvre at 10 and finally The Roundup: No Way Out on preview release enters at number 12.
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The Disney live action remake of The Little Mermaid makes its debut at the top of the UK box office this weekend with a gross of £5 Million.
The last live action remake to hit cinemas was The Lion King~2019 which took £15 Million on its debut in 2019.
The Original The Little Mermaid from 1990, when adjusted for inflation, took £11 Million on its debut.After making its debut at the top last weekend Fast X falls to number 2 this weekend and has name £10 Million to date.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been on release now for 8 weeks and it at number 4 this weekend with a total gross of £52.2 Million.
The new Ben Affleck movie Hypnotic is new this week at 5 with £217,252 while action movie Sisi is new at 6 with £144,567.
Further down the box office at 8 is Tomorrow X Together Again with £66,961 and The Sleeping Beauty: ROH London 2023 is at 9 with £l;64,370 and finally the last two new releases of the weekend are Godday Godday Chaa and Full Time at 12 and 13.
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As Disney continue to milk their animated back catalogue its time for The Little Mermaid from the start of their "renaissance" period to get the live action remake.
The movie takes a reasonable $95.5 Million over the 3 day weekend and $117.5 Million over the 4 day memorial weekend which is considered the start of the summer season.
Fast X drops to second place after a single weekend at the top, but the movie never stood a chance against the might of a Disney movie.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is still hanging on to a top 5 place and after 8 weeks has taken $558 Million.
Mark Hamil stars in The Machine~2023 which is new at number 5 this weekend with $4.9 Million and the Robert De Niro comedy About My Father is one place below with $4.25 Million.
Also new this weekend is Kandahar at number 7 with $2.4 Million and You Hurt My Feelings at number 8 with $1.3 Million.
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This weekend the tenth movie in The Fast and the Furious series of movies gets its UK debut and tops the box office in the process with a gross of £5.8 Million.
The movie is just shy of there previous movie which took just over £6 Million on its debut in 2020 and it is well below the series high of Fast & Furious 8 which took £14 Million in April 2013.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 slips to number 2 this weekend after a couple of weeks at the top as the movies total gross hits £29 Million, below that of the previous movie.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is still in the top 3 after 7 weeks of release as its gross passes another milestone of £50 Million at the UK box office.
Finally in the top 5 are a couple of new releases, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is at number 3 with £327,197 and Beau Is Afraid is at 5 with £231,370.
Also new this weekend is the event movie, Don Giovanni: Met Opera at 9 with £99,842.
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The tenth movie in The Fast and the Furious franchise makes its debut at the top of the US box office this weekend with a gross of $67.5 Million.
This is a slither lower than the $70 Million of the previous movie, which came out during the pandemic, and its way lower than the series high, Fast & Furious 7 which was released in April 2015.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 drops to number 2 this weekend and has taken $266.5 Million in total after 3 weeks of release in the US.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is still hanging on to a top 3 place after 7 weeks of release and has taken nearly $550 Million at the US box office.
The only other new entry on this weeks top 15 was Master Gardener which makes its debut at 12 with $269,200.
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