Whatever the Summer of 2026 holds in store, the spring of this movie going year has been positively littered with temporary blockbusters, a few of them with “legs.”

From “Project Hail Mary” to “Super Mario Galaxy,” to the more unexpected smashes “Micheal” and “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” business at the movies is rebounding, and not just thanks to spiking ticket prices.

This second weekend of May sees the latest iteration of the video games-turned-movies “Mortal Kombat” series, “Mortal Kombat 2,” clearing a very healthy but not spectacular $40 million. It could reach into the mid-$40s, and it’ll pretty much have to. As Deadline.com points out, last weekend’s smash, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” is still making bank, with $42-45 million looking like its second weekend tally.

As “Prada 2,” an adult fashionista romance sequel to a movie that opened 20 years ago, earned $76 million on its opening weekend, a lowish week-to-week drop of 45% is something serious to brag about.

There have been four “Mortal Kombat” movies, and the novelty of this one is that it has Karl Urban in the role of the washed-up-action-movoie hero, dropping zingers and out of his depth in “real” martial arts brawls with demigods out to destroy “Earthrealm.” He helps a little, but not much. Every single one of these video game adaptations has had story problems that overwhelm the production values and “acting.” They’ve all sucked.

But reviews don’t sink or float these movies, and Urban is the reason this one is getting more lightly panned than the earlier incarnations.

“Prada” box office was overestimated in the early part of last weekend, and it may fall off enough to give New Line a weak weekend “Kombat” win.” The movie — with little known supporting players — “only” cost $80 million or so to make.

“Michael” has been the big surprise of the spring. It’s on track to make another $35 million this weekend, a third place finish that puts it well on its way to $250 million, just in North America. Most everything bad everybody has said about it is true, but also true is Spike Lee’s defense that a superficial gloss on a story that ends before Jackson’s life became a tabloid freak show of sham marriages, stunts and lawsuits over his pedophilia is a valid approach to his life.

Maybe they’re saving that for the sequel. Who’ll play Oprah?

But Jaafar Jackson’s impersonation in the title role is uncanny– the voice, the hair, right down to the perfectly-placed band-aid symbolizing Jackson’s many race-erasing medical procedures. I hope to get around to writing a review on it today.

Fourth place goes to a family film with a bit of an edge. “The Sheep Detectives” is about sheep trying to solve the murder of their shepherd (Hugh Jackman), but it surprisingly gets into imparting wisdom about death and dying and faith and — being British — it doesn’t shy away from discounting religion for the fairy tale it is.

The “mystery” is kind of a dud and the picture kind of plods, I thought. But hard-pressed-for-laughs or not, it’s playing, got decent enough reviews overall and might hit the $15 million mark by midnight Sunday.

The new Billie Eilish concert doc, “Billie Eilish: Hit me Hard and Soft — The Tour” looks like it’ll take fifth with an $8-9 million weekend. She’s still a “thing,” I guesss, so go figure. Those aren’t exacly Beyonce/Tay-Tay concert doc numbers, though.

Sixth place looks to be a race between the March release that just won’t fade away, “Project Hail Mary,” and a fast-falling animated “Super Mario Galaxy” sequel.

“Hokum” and a collection of low-drawing also-rans look to fill out the top ten.

I’ll update this as more Sat. and Sunday data comes in.