besting Amazon MGM Studios’ Project Hail Mary, which rang up a $33.1M Friday/previews — but it’s also the best opening Wednesday in April, beating 2023’s The Super Mario Bros Movie, which brought in $31.7M. Keep in mind, no previews puffing up that figure.

Celebrating a rehashed sequel beating a genuinely good original IP. This is why we can't have nice things.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago

Isn't Project Hail Mary an adaptation?

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

This would always be the case. It’s a kids film, released during the Easter holidays, it’s probably raining, and it’s an ideal way to entertain the scrotes for a couple of hours with some predictable animated bullshit.

It doesn’t take away from Project Hail Mary because the markets are entirely different, and the creators wouldn’t expect the additional revenue from taking the entire family.