The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Crosses $1 Billion at the Box Office

It took immoderate time, but The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has yet crossed the $1 cardinal people astatine the planetary container office.

Nintendo and Illumination's Mario movie sequel took 10 weekends to walk the coveted movie milestone (via Deadline). Although that means it reached $1 cardinal astatine overmuch a slower gait than its predecessor, which took lone 26 days, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is present the archetypal and lone movie to transverse the container bureau cardinal people successful 2026.

With some animated adaptations uncovering tremendous occurrence successful theaters, the 2 Super Mario films person present accumulated a full of much than $2.30 billion. That lands them successful the fig 9 spot successful the database of apical 10 animated franchises worldwide, with Despicable Me successful archetypal astatine $5.64 billion, Shrek successful 2nd astatine $3.98 billion, and Toy Story successful 3rd astatine $3.28 billion. As immoderate of the names successful the database diagnostic franchises with arsenic galore arsenic six full films, Mario has a bully changeable astatine shaking things up, should much sequels get the greenlight.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie took Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, and adjacent Star Fox's Fox McCloud connected an intergalactic escapade erstwhile it premiered successful theaters April 1, 2026. Mixed captious effect did small to halt Nintendo's latest movie from kicking disconnected with a roaring start, arsenic it managed to propulsion successful $34 cardinal connected the time of its Wednesday merchandise alone.

It's since spun up $428.5 cardinal domestically and $571.5 cardinal internationally. For comparison, The Super Mario Bros. Movie ended its container bureau tally with $574.9 cardinal domestically and $785.8 cardinal internationally, bringing its full to astir $1.36 cardinal (via Box Office Mojo).

With what appears to beryllium different location tally nether its belt, Nintendo is showing nary motion of slowing down its movie ambitions. The gaming institution acceptable an April 2028 day for its adjacent animated movie earlier this year, and successful April 2027, fans volition perfectly instrumentality to theaters to drawback its live-action The Legend of Zelda movie.

IGN called The Super Mario Galaxy Movie "okay" successful its 6/10 review. At the time, we said it "ditches an engaging communicative successful favour of a pipe-bursting magnitude of Easter eggs, but that’s not an all-together atrocious thing."

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