Friday, May 22, 2026

Box Office: “Project Hail Mary” Hits $200 Mil Today, “The Drama” Looks at $15 Mil Weekend, “Mario” Rules the Galaxy

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The big box office story now is “Super Mario Bros Galaxy.”

You have no idea what this is, and you won’t be seeing it. But plenty of people have — and will!

The total from three days is already $107.4 million.

Are you kidding? I am not. Friday — yesterday — forty eight million dollars in one day! FORTY EIGHT.

So the weekend — will definitely cross $200 million in record time. Unbelievable. It’s an event, a product, a thing to do. I’ll bet the popcorn bucket is cool, too!

Also crossing $200 million today is a real movie, “Project Hail Mary,” which was THE box office story until Mario came to town.

“The Drama” is drawing audiences, although they may not be crazy about it. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson have got the fans, and most of them think the movie is a romcom. By the time it’s over, everyone needs a drink.

The Rotten Tomatoes audience meter is at 83% so far, which is good but not a resounding endorsement.

The Thurs-Fri take is $6.4 million. Weekend total, they say, will be $16 million.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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