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Illumination and Universal’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie astatine $372.5M worldwide is nan 2nd highest grossing movie successful nan Nintendo videogame plumbers large surface franchise down 2023’s Super Mario Bros‘ $387.8M, but, damn, did this sequel make a ton of rate this weekend.
Overseas successful 80 territories, and much than 23,500 locations and 54,000 screens, portion 2 did $182.4M while U.S. and Canada rang up $190M complete nan Wednesday done Easter agelong (and $130.9M complete nan Friday done Sunday span).
When it comes to nan occurrence of Super Mario Galaxy Movie “the franchise operates successful a postulation of its ain successful position of its container agency potential, capitalizing connected its beloved IP and benefitting from nan occurrence of nan 2023 movie that generated monolithic goodwill frankincense adding container agency momentum to its opening play potential. We will look for, arsenic they opportunity successful nan parlance of video gaming, this movie to level up nan container agency successful a large measurement not only successful its opening week but for nan full period of April heading into nan all-important summertime movie season,” says Comscore Head of Marketplace Trends, Paul Dergarabedian.
Here’s really Super Mario Galaxy‘s records breakdown:
Global:
–Biggest world opening astatine nan container agency for 2026 arsenic of April 5.
–The only animated franchise to person 2 titles unfastened complete $350M globally.
–Fifth biggest world opening ever for an animated movie and nan 4th biggest MPA animated opening of each time, down only Zootopia 2 ($560.3M), Moana 2 ($389.3M) and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–Second highest world opening for Illumination of each time behind only The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–Second biggest world opening for a movie based connected a video crippled down only The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–Fifth biggest world opening for a Universal movie of each clip behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Studio’s apical 3 are Fate of nan Furious ($541.9M reported), Jurassic World ($525.5M) and F7 ($397.6M).
Domestic:
–Biggest opening of 2026 YTD.
–Fourth biggest 5-day opening ever aft Moana 2 ($225.4M), Super Mario Bros Movie ($204.6M), Transformers: Revenge of nan Fallen ($200M)
–The biggest 5-Day Domestic Opening since Moana 2 ($225.4M)
–Fourth biggest 3-day complete Easter play aft Batman v. Superman ($166M), F7 ($147.1M) and Super Mario Bros ($146.3M).
–The 2nd highest 3-day home opening play for Illumination of each clip down only The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–The biggest 3-Day Domestic Opening since Wicked: For Good ($147M).
–The 2nd biggest 3-day animated home opening for a Universal movie behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–The 3rd biggest 3-day home opening for a movie based connected a video crippled down only A Minecraft Movie ($162.7M) and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–Will join Shrek, Toy Story and Minions as nan only animated franchises to person 2 titles unfastened to much than $100M for 3 days astatine nan home container office.
International:
–The biggest MPA International opening play of 2026
–The only animated franchise to person 2 titles unfastened complete $170M internationally (the first was $183.2M successful like-for-likes).
–Second biggest world opening for an Illumination movie down Super Mario Bros in like-for-likes
–Second biggest world opening for a videogame aft Super Mario Bros.
