Super Mario Galaxy tops \$600M

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has passed $600 million worldwide less than two weeks after opening, pushing it to No. 3 on GameSpot’s all-time video-game movie chart. (hollywoodreporter.com) (gamespot.com) The Illumination and Nintendo sequel opened on April 1 and made $372.5 million worldwide in its first five days, including $190.1 million in North America and $182.4 million overseas. Universal released it globally ahead of Easter and spring-break traffic. (gamespot.com) (cnbc.com) By its second weekend, The Hollywood Reporter said the film was headed for about $308.1 million domestic and $327 million international, enough to clear the $600 million mark worldwide. The same report said it was the first Hollywood film of 2026 to top both $300 million in the United States and Canada and $600 million globally. (hollywoodreporter.com) GameSpot’s ranking uses Box Office Mojo totals, and Box Office Mojo listed the movie at $372,487,455 worldwide after its first five days, with a $130.94 million domestic opening and an April 1 earliest release date. That ranking matters because video-game movies spent years as a weak box-office category before Nintendo’s recent animated run changed the scale. (boxofficemojo.com) (gamespot.com) The 2023 Super Mario Bros. Movie remains the category’s biggest hit at more than $1.3 billion worldwide, according to GameSpot. GameSpot’s updated list places A Minecraft Movie at No. 2 and now puts Super Mario Galaxy at No. 3. (gamespot.com) The sequel’s launch was slightly behind the first Mario film’s first five days, which reached $377 million worldwide and $204 million in North America in 2023. But GameSpot said the franchise is now the only animated series with two films opening above $350 million worldwide. (gamespot.com) The movie arrived with returning voice actors Chris Pratt, Jack Black, Anya Taylor-Joy and Charlie Day, and CNBC reported it cost about $110 million to make before marketing. CNBC also said it played in 4,252 theaters in the United States and Canada, including 421 IMAX screens, and earned $15 million from IMAX alone in its debut. (cnbc.com) Audience scores have been stronger than critic reviews. CNBC said ticket buyers gave the film five out of five stars from families in PostTrak polling and an A-minus CinemaScore from general audiences, while AMC said it ordered more than 500,000 themed merchandise items for theaters in the United States. (cnbc.com) (gamespot.com) For Nintendo and Universal, the immediate question is no longer whether the sequel is a hit. It is how quickly a movie that started April 1 can chase the two video-game films still ahead of it. (hollywoodreporter.com) (gamespot.com)