'Mortal Kombat II' has delivered a fatality to the box office and will soon surpass the total earnings of the first part

After experts predicted the end of cinema in recent years, 2026 has come to show that it’s all a matter of perspective, because practically all the major films that have been released have turned a profit. It seems that Hollywood has cracked the complex formula to please the audience (which consists of, well, giving them what they want to see) and now even sequels to lesser films like Mortal Kombat have managed to come out more or less unscathed from the accumulation of releases. That’s no small feat.

Box Office Punches

Only on Friday, Mortal Kombat II managed a more than decent 17 million dollars at the box office, and made the projections (that is, the magic numbers that analysts handle) rise from 35 to 41 million in its opening weekend just in the United States. It cost 80 million and will need about 200 to turn a profit, so it’s still early to ring the bells, but it’s doing much better than everyone expected. Come on, it has delivered a fatality to all expectations.

In other words: in just one day, Mortal Kombat II has almost surpassed what the first installment made in a weekend (23 million), although it is also true that the previous movie, even released during the pandemic, was available simultaneously on HBO Max. Do you remember that nonsense that did terrible damage to theaters from which they are only now recovering? Well, let’s see the power of the franchise today. In principle, in a couple of weekends it should have surpassed the total earnings of that one.

For its part, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has not managed to repeat number 1 and on Friday it dropped to 9.8 million dollars, although it remains to be seen if it will lose over the weekend, which will depend exclusively on Mother’s Day, which is this Sunday. What is clear is that going to the movies is back in fashion, even if millennials are reluctant to go.