(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 10 - Everyone's crazy about Super Mario Bros: the first animated film inspired by the iconic video game plumber, directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, debuts at the top of the Easter weekend takings, with 5 million 716 thousand euros in weekends and almost 7 million in five days of programming in over 560 cinemas monitored by Cinetel.
Behind him the debut of Air - The story of the great jump, the film by Ben Affleck with Matt Damon starring in the role of Nike manager Sonny Vaccaro, which tells the incredible and revolutionary partnership between a young Michael Jordan and the nascent division of the company dedicated to basketball : in 4 days the loot is 1 million 67 thousand euros.
John Wick 4 with Keanu Reeves slips into third place, with 578,000 euros over the weekend and 4.6 million in total.
It loses two positions and is fourth Dungeons & Dragons: Honor of Thieves, the fantasy by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M.
Goldstein, with Chris Pine and Regé-Jean Page, which rakes in another 550 thousand euros for a total taking of nearly 2 million. 2 weeks.
Then two new entries: in fifth place The Tremosketeers: D'Artagnan, the blockbuster by Martin Bourboulon with an all-star French cast with Vincent Cassel, Eva Green, Louis Garrel and Romain Duris (about 300 thousand euros), and Mia, the new dramatic film by Ivano De Matteo with Edoardo Leo (about 230 thousand euros).
The return of Casanova by Gabriele Salvatores, with Toni Servillo and Fabrizio Bentivoglio, drops to seventh position with 135 thousand euros over the weekend (about 580 thousand in total), followed by Stranizza d'amuri by Beppe Fiorello, down two steps in the standings (119 thousand euros at the weekend, 684 thousand in total).
Rounding out the top ten is Walter Veltroni's Quando, ninth (just over 96,000 euros in takings, 415,000 in two weeks) and L'ultima notte di amore with Pierfrancesco Favino (80,000 euros over the weekend, over 3 million in total).
Overall, the box office smiles with 9.2 million, +115% compared to a week ago (4.3 million).
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