The film starring Halle Bailey as the titular mermaid Ariel and Melissa McCarthy as her sea witch nemesis Ursula displaces Fast X in the top spot.
Disney's live-action remake of its 1989 animated classic easily outswam the competition, bringing in US$95.5 million on 4,320 screens in North America, according to studio estimates on Sunday .
And Disney estimates the film starring Halle Bailey as the titular mermaid Ariel and Melissa McCarthy as her sea witch nemesis Ursula will reach US$117.5 million by the time the holiday is over. It ranks as the fifth biggest Memorial Day weekend opening ever. It displaces Fast X in the top spot. The 10th installment in the Fast And Furious franchise starring Vin Diesel has lagged behind more recent releases in the series, bringing in US$23 million domestically for a two-week total of US$108 million for Universal Pictures.
In its fourth weekend, Disney and Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3 made an estimated US$20 million in North America to take third place. It's now made US$299 million domestically. Fourth went to Universal's The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which keeps reaching new levels in its eighth weekend. Now available to rent on VOD, it still earned US$6.3 million in theatres. Its cumulative total of US$559 million makes Mario and Luigi the year's biggest earners so far.The Machine, an action comedy starring stand-up comedian Bert Kreischer, finished fifth with US$4.9 million domestically.
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