Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 28 to June 3, 2023

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 28 to June 3, 2023)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Spinixster, Ollieisanerd and a helpful IP

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Movie season is in full steam, led by a cartoon and the remake of a cartoon.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	1,756,037	Spider-Man, we're at it again. This time with 50% more Spider-Men! Oooh yeah. Not quite a bug. Not quite a man. How do I break out from this Spider-Man clan? Marvel's most popular character gets another animated feature about his multiple variations, most prominently the once Ultimate Spider-Man Miles Morales. Amazingly done regarding both visuals and writing, even if it's frustrating how everything ends in a massive cliffhanger for Beyond the Spider-Verse, due next March, Across the Spider-Verse has earned great reviews and had a massive opening of over $120 million in North America alone.
2	The Little Mermaid (2023 film)	1,699,397	In the latest case of Disney remaking their animated features in live-action (or in the most unnecessary and unfortunately most profitable case, trading 2D animation for photorealistic one), the return to the story of Ariel is comparable to Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, perfectly watchable with good production values and most of what made people love the original, as well as adding some stuff that only reminds people to skip rewatches of the remake and just go for the cartoon again - don't care if Lin-Manuel Miranda is involved, I certainly did not need to see a rapping Scuttle. Audiences are still making this a box office hit, albeit with better numbers in North America than overseas as seemingly mermaids have problems keeping up with cars and submarines (#4).
3	ChatGPT	1,354,094	People continue to be intrigued by the chatbot that this Report still hasn't "hired" to do write-ups.
4	Fast X	1,115,810	Like #1, the latest in an enduring franchise that ends in a cliffhanger.
5	Tina Turner	1,027,003	As big wheels keep on turning, the late Queen of Rock 'n' Roll keeps on rolling on this report.
6	Deaths in 2023	930,877	Though I'm poor, I am free When I grow, I shall fight For this land, I shall die Let her sun never set
7	Succession (TV series)	917,926	These critically acclaimed shows premiered its season finales on May 28th and May 31st respectively, but it is unclear if Ted Lasso's season finale would be its last like Succession's.
8	Ted Lasso	617,121
9	Al Pacino	607,104	Like friend and fellow acting legend Robert De Niro a few weeks ago, Pacino is here for fatherhood at a very advanced age (83!), once he announced his girlfriend is expecting his fourth child.
10	Danny Masterson	587,101	That '90s Show had one conspicuous absence from That '70s Show in Steven Hyde, who didn't even get a cursory mention. The reason is his actor being charged with three accusations of rape, and the trial has ended with Masterson convicted for two of the counts, leading to incarceration facing 30 years to life.
11	The Super Mario Bros. Movie	578,641	The highest-grossing movie of the year so far has hit video on demand, allowing to both check on this fun adaptation of a beloved gaming icon and pause to discover all the easter eggs, like the hat shop from Super Mario Odyssey.
12	Memorial Day	578,470	The North American holiday in remembrance of fallen soldiers, held in the last Monday of May.
13	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	578,046	One more week for the MCU hit that certainly closes the book on the team we met back in 2014, given by the end it's a new formation and a few of the actors already said they don't want to return.
14	Elizabeth Holmes	556,697	The once promising CEO of Theranos turned convicted fraudster has now been sent to prison, three months after giving birth to a second child and less than a month after trying to clean up her image.
15	Phillip Schofield	554,067	2023 has not been a good year for this English television presenter, to say the least. In April, his brother was found guilty of sexual offences against a teenage boy. A month later, Schofield himself resigned from ITV after he admitted to having an extramarital affair with a much younger male ITV employee and lying about the relationship to ITV's management, his work colleagues including Holly Willoughby, his lawyers, his agents and others. The affair took place before Schofield came out as gay in 2020, and whilst he was still with his wife. Schofield claimed that the media interest in the affair was motivated partly by homophobia, saying that an affair with a much younger woman would not have generated such a scandal. His former sidekick Gordon the Gopher has yet to comment on the news.
16	Chennai Super Kings	528,717	Indian Premier League and 2023 Indian Premier League were repeatedly excluded for excessive mobile views, but now the championship for India's favorite sport earned an entry for the latest champions, who won their fifth title.
17	Nikola Jokić	524,143	The "Joker" is wild, having brought the Denver Nuggets to the 2023 NBA Finals only losing four games so far this postseason, including the second one of the finals where in spite of Jokić scoring 41 points the Miami Heat still pulled off a win.
18	MS Dhoni	521,268	Splitting the two adversaries of the 2023 NBA Finals is the victorious captain of #16.
19	Jimmy Butler	520,140	#17's path to the title must go through the Miami Heat of the current points leader, in his second final three years after losing in the NBA Bubble, with 2023 having Butler going through quite the tough path, that included almost losing his postseason spot in the play-in tournament, pulling an upset over top seed Milwaukee Bucks, and seeing the Boston Celtics force a game 7.
20	Ravindra Jadeja	517,284	One more of #16's players.
21	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	509,922	#1's Oscar-winning predecessor, where the Kingpin messing with the Multiverse leads to Miles Morales becoming Spider-Man, and the arrival of aged Spider-Man, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man Noir, Sp//dr, and Spider-Ham!
22	Bijou Phillips	504,596	#10's wife, who has taken a hiatus from acting to raise their daughter, and had always tried to defend him from the rape accusations.
23	Rivaba Jadeja	496,491	#20's wife. And as a sidenote, wonder if the sad Indian news from Saturday will enter next week's Report.
24	Premier League	487,274	Manchester City won 2022-23, and 2023-24 will have a nice story in Luton Town F.C., the first team to return to the top flight of English football after falling all the way down to the fifth division. And as mentioned above, the end of the Indian Premier League will cut down on accidental views for this article.
25	Halle Bailey	460,661	Closing off with #2's Ariel, who has more experience singing with her sister in Chloe x Halle than acting. Even if there were complaints about a Black mermaid, this here writer didn't care as long as she was still as a redhead (and she was).