Riley Vox
Mortal Kombat II Lost to a Holdover About Handbags — The R-Rated Video Game Ceiling Has Been This Low for 30 Years
Look, I'm going to say something nobody at a Hollywood pitch meeting wants to hear: Mortal Kombat II opened to $40 million this weekend — the best opening of the entire Mortal Kombat film franchise, by the way — and it still got out-grossed by a sequel about a fashion magazine editor. In its second weekend. A holdover. A legacy comedy. About clothes.
Jordan Blake
By the Numbers: How Miranda Priestly Out-Demoed Mortal Kombat II and a Michael Jackson Biopic in the Same Weekend
Three films cleared $36 million domestically the weekend of May 8-10, and the 20-year-old comedy sequel beat them both. The −44% drop is doing all the work — and the demographic data shows exactly why none of the new entrants laid a glove on Miranda Priestly.