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First reported by Variety<\/a>, the Super Mario Galaxy Movie has officially claimed the highest spot on the 2026 box office, pulling in $629 million globally after just two weekends of release. The animated sequel scored<\/a> a $69 million second weekend domestically, dropping 48 percent from its $131.7 million opening weekend. Through 12 days of release, the film has earned $308 million in North America alone, alongside $320 million overseas from 81 territories.<\/p>\n To place the domestic pace into perspective, the film pulled in $34.5 million on its opening day, crossed $100 million by day three, and hit $190 million by the top of its first weekend. Even on weekdays, it was still clearing $14 million to $16 million per day in its first full week. Top-earning international markets include Mexico with $47.8 million, the UK and Ireland with $37.4 million, Germany with $29 million, and France with $23.9 million.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a powerful pace, though not entirely surprising given how the primary film performed. The Super Mario Bros. Movie ended up because the second-highest-grossing release of 2023 with $1.3 billion, and the sequel looks prefer it\u2019s tracking toward the $1 billion mark in the approaching weeks. Whether it holds onto the highest spot for the yr is one other query entirely, with Spider-Man: Brand Recent Day, Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey, Toy Story 5, and Avengers: Doomsday all on the way in which.<\/p>\n Video game movies proceed to have a robust yr on the box office. The Mortal Kombat II movie arrives on May 8, and there\u2019s a Street Fighter movie set for October. Between those and the Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u2019s massive run, studios are clearly seeing the worth in adapting gaming franchises for the large screen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First reported by Variety, the Super Mario Galaxy Movie has officially claimed the highest spot on the 2026 box office, pulling in $629 million globally after just two weekends of release. The animated sequel scored a $69 million second weekend domestically, dropping 48 percent from its $131.7 million opening weekend. Through 12 days of release, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[39569,2184,3902,106,569,611,37776],"class_list":["post-317865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-2026s","tag-film","tag-galaxy","tag-mario","tag-movie","tag-super","tag-topgrossing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317868,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317865\/revisions\/317868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}