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    Box Office: ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ Remains No. 1 With $43 Million; ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Launches to $40 Million Domestic, Adds $23 Million Overseas For $63 Million Global Debut

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    4. misguidedkent on

      Miranda Priestly bodied Johnny Cage this weekend. 40 million domestic debut is good enough considering it is 2.3 million shybof it’s predecessor’s 42.3 million cume (courtesy of the pandemic and day-fate streaming drop) but th 23 million overseas debut is just straight up bad. 200 million break-even point looks to be tall order.

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    7. BobTrain666 on

      MK2 should cross 150m but won’t hit 200m break even. Although heavy DOM skew might let
      lower the breakeven

    9. PatternPlenty1107 on

      INSANE…, and not in a good way.

      200M+ global final is impossible now.

      Let’s hope it can at least reach 150M.

      The combination of Michael and The Devil Wears Prada 2 totally destroyed it internationally.

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    10. MNIOP_207207 on

      I’m not surprised Mortal Kombat is underperforming.

      The franchise has one appeal, and that’s it combat. And I saw the first movie….its fight scenes were pretty mid. Lots of camera cutting, unimpressive angles and blocking, muddy visuals and lighting. Coreagraphy was weak, looked more like awkward shuffling than fighting. Its like they only cared about the bloody fatalities, and not the fight leading up to them.

      This franchise has one thing going for it, and they messed it up. Now you expect me to be excited for a sequel that came out half a decade later, with the same middling direction?

    11. Alternative-Cake-833 on

      Not the first time a Mortal Kombat film has been dethroned from first place….

      The 2021 one was in a two-way tie with Demon Slayer, and had a steep second weekend decline, with Demon Slayer taking the #1 spot. This one was in a close two-way tie with Devil Wears Prada 2 and it seems like that the latter has won out.

    12. MDNA4Life on

      Maybe keeping the original October release date wasn’t a bad idea after all

    13. KingMario05 on

      You can’t fight the Runway, Cage. Wonder if this means Disney will try to get IMAX screens on DWP2 in a few weeks’ time? I would.

    14. CancelThis2077 on

      Maybe moving MKII from Oct 2025 to May 2026 against Michael & The Devil Wears Prada II wasn’t the best decision?

    15. Anstark0 on

      MK is very sad, I wonder why this franchise has no staying power overseas even after all these years

    16. stringfellow-hawke on

      I see people have been saving up their puns and bad mortal combat jokes.

    17. HobbieK on

      I think the fairly terrific WOM for Mortal Kombat should hopefully give it better legs than normal

    19. bradberry_thickums on

      They shoulda done more to appeal to non-fans or something. I’ve never played or known someone who plays this game. Same with Street Fighter, but I’m actually planning to watch that since Orville Peck is in it – the power of appealing to different audiences!

    20. Dulcolax on

      The best reviewed Mortal kombat movie. The only Mortal kombat movie NOT Rotten on RT . Much better than the previous one. I think it’s gonna be fine in the long haul. I loved it.

    21. Patience_Specific on

      Damn 40M domestic solid opening for me with legs can get to 100M so not so bad but saw the overseas number…yikes did not expect that. 200M was the target for me don’t think that’ll happen now.

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