MortalKombat beat out Dune, GodzillavsKong, and TheMatrixResurrections for the best opening weekend of 2021 on HBO Max with over 3 million viewers.
Mortal Kombat has emerged as the victor of the 2021 Warner Bros. released films on HBO Max with the most viewers. Towards the end of 2020, Warner Bros. parent company WarnerMedia decided to premiere their entire 2021 film slate in theaters and on HBO Max alongside Wonder Woman 1984 for Christmas of 2020. The move was a controversial one but one that Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. released a wide array of films on HBO Max through the year, from highly anticipated franchise installments like The Matrix Ressurection and The Suicide Squad, to adult-skewing films like King Richard and The Many Saints of Newark, to family-friendly offerings like Tom & Jerry and Space Jam: A New Legacy.
Mortal Kombat being the top film on HBO Max makes a certain amount of sense, given the film was an R-rated project, so a good portion of the audiences may not have been able to see it in theaters but could stream it at home. The other factor is, like Godzilla vs Kong, the film opened earlier in the year when many theaters weren't open, so streaming Mortal Kombat may have been the only way to see it.
Mortal Kombat had a reported budget of $55 million, and while the film only made $42 million domestically, it did manage to bring in a worldwide gross of $83 million. Combining that with the HBO Max viewership numbers, Warner Bros. likely sees the movie as successful, and the future of the franchise might be on HBO Max instead of the theatrical market.
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