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April 4, 2026 - Hail Mary!, The Drama Join Mario and Luigi and the Music is Our Gain

Project Hail Mary, the top theatrical hit of 2026 so far, brings a few vintage songs back into the fray including Ella Fitzgerald's 1957 version of late '30s Gershwin tune "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," South African star Miriam Makeba's '67 hit "Pata Pata" and Beatles breakup-era album cut "Two of Us." Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star in The Drama, a romantic comedy in spite of its title, highlighted by two very different mid-1950s recordings, "The Wind" by R&B vocal group The Diablos featuring Nolan Strong and "Tangerine," the 1942 Victor Schertzinger-Johnny Mercer song given a lush arrangement on Jackie Gleason's 1954 album Music to Remember Her.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (the follow-up to 2023's Super Mario Bros. Movie) is getting set for a hot box office run and Dean Martin's 1953 hit "That's Amore" factors into the fun. Another of Dino's "Rat Pack" pals, Sammy Davis Jr., croons "I've Gotta Be Me" (from the 1968 Broadway musical Golden Rainbow) on a current commercial for Coinbase.



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