Mortal Kombat packs a big bloody punch at the weekend box office!
April 25, 2021 by:
MORTAL KOMBAT on top at the weekend box office with an estimated opening of
$22.5 million!
The R-rated videogame adaptation performed even better than its anticipated $15 million opening, despite ongoing pandemic precautions and the movie s simultaneous release on the HBO Max streaming service.
The new live-action update s opening came close to the $23.2 million start in 1995 for director Paul W.S. Anderson s PG-13 version, which ultimately collected $122 million worldwide on an $18 million budget. In the time since that first movie s success, live-action adaptations of the MORTAL KOMBAT franchise have been limited to the much-ridiculed 1997 sequel ANNIHILATION, the 1998 TV series CONQUEST and the more recent web series LEGACY (plus a stage tour back in 1996).