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The box office hit a power-up this weekend, as \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d continued a healthy streak for family films in theaters.<\/p>\n
The animated sequel from Universal Pictures, Nintendo and Illumination raced to $190 million in the U.S. and Canada in its five-day holiday weekend debut, placing it solidly in first place, according to studio estimates and Comscore data. That total was in line with expectations of a $186-million domestic opening. <\/p>\n
Globally, the film earned $372.5 million, the largest opening so far in 2026.<\/p>\n
The first film based on the video game franchise, \u201cThe Super Mario Bros. Movie,\u201d made $146.4 million in its 2023 debut.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie,\u201d which had a production budget of $110 million, continues the story of iconic Nintendo characters Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach as they journey to rescue Princess Rosalina.<\/p>\n
Amazon MGM\u2019s \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d came in second at the box office with a domestic total of $30.7 million – pushing its total to $217 million. A24\u2019s \u201cThe Drama ($14.4 million), Disney\u2019s \u201cHoppers\u201d ($5.8 million) and Universal\u2019s \u201cReminders of Him ($2.2 million) rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n
The success of \u201cMario\u201d this weekend is another example of the power of family films at the box office.<\/p>\n
Animated movies like Sony Pictures Animation\u2019s \u201cGoat\u201d and Walt Disney Co. and Pixar\u2019s \u201cHoppers\u201d have performed well in theaters this year, along with the strong holdover performance of Disney\u2019s 2025 hit \u201cZootopia 2,\u201d which has now made more than $1.87 billion worldwide.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s all contributed to a stronger first quarter in the theatrical business, as this year\u2019s revenue was up more than 20% compared with the same period in 2025. March was especially strong, with the massive haul from \u201cProject Hail Mary.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The box office hit a power-up this weekend, as \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d continued a healthy streak for family films in theaters. The animated sequel from Universal Pictures, Nintendo and Illumination raced to $190 million in the U.S. and Canada in its five-day holiday weekend debut, placing it solidly in first place, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2360019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2360018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Super-Mario-Galaxy-Movie-soars-to-the-top-spot.com2F992F7c2Fea0e32f94d579e6a6a427d0d.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360020,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360018\/revisions\/2360020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}