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adjunct faculty and guaranteed funding for graduate students among the sticking points. right the super mario brothers movie, scoring a huge hit in his debut week. that sicko. raking in a whopping 204.6 million bucks since wednesday, bringing in families two theaters in droves and making it the most successful video game adaptation. ever. not sure. all right. thanks for joining me. i m christine romans on early start this monday morning. a cnn this morning starts right now. yeah. your morning like dressed for easter spring. was here at cnn seventh birthday today. things are happy birthday. good happy belated to you. did you
expecting the weather mandate. got in there and got the information. you gotta ask your questions. ask your question it easter egg rolling off exactly. okay so from nintendo to the big screen, super mario brothers stomping box office expectations this weekend despite a lukewarm review from critics, what is behind the success here? oh, well, harry antin. here with this morning s number. haircut. sunday night. we re trying something a little different. one whole story. what s startling is the sheer number of migrants on this track. one whole hour. world s best journalists dig deeper is san francisco have failed city into the stories. they can t ignore the godzilla get mad and go kill that thing. go in depth every sunday night. if there are people willing to take risks. then they re gonna be people that left behind. the whole story with anderson cooper premieres sunday at eight o cnn
opening despite some lukewarm reviews. from the critics, but you never know critics, the real critics, right? the folks who go out and watch the movie. harry hinton, our senior data reporter is here with this morning s number, so just how well did you do with the box office? first off? i just want to say it s me, harry. i had to do that. sorry okay? yeah this morning s number is take a look here. 205 million in the u. s domestic box office that is the largest gross ever for a five day opening so huge. we re not just talking animation, though it did set the record for animation film for the largest five day opening, not just domestically but internationally as well near four. $100 million internationally, so it was an absolutely huge opening, but something that we were talking about here, which is the reviews who like super mario brothers, movie goers 96% of them like that. but look amongst the critics, just 56% of them like
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