{"id":487869,"date":"2026-06-07T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487869\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:03:08","slug":"super-mario-galaxy-movie-box-office-record-first-1b-movie-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487869\/","title":{"rendered":"Super\u00a0Mario Galaxy Movie\u00a0Box Office Record: First $1B Movie of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn good news for Universal, movie theaters and men who are considering buying a pair of overalls, The Super\u00a0Mario Galaxy Movie has crossed $1 billion at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/box-office\/\" id=\"auto-tag_box-office_1\" data-tag=\"box-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">box office<\/a>, the first film of 2026 to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter this weekend, Galaxy stands at $428.5 million at the domestic box office and $571.5 million internationally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGalaxy\u2019s predecessor, 2023\u2019s The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/super-mario-bros\/\" id=\"auto-tag_super-mario-bros_1\" data-tag=\"super-mario-bros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Mario Bros.<\/a> Movie, earned more than $1.3 billion at the box office. Over two films, the Mario movies have become one of Hollywood\u2019s more lucrative animated film series, coming in ninth with $2.3 billion in global ticket sales. It is joining the ranks of Inside Out ($2.56 billion, unadjusted, over two films), Kung Fu Panda ($2.37 billion, unadjusted, over four films) and Madagascar ($2.26 billion, unadjusted, over seven films). The highest-grossing animated franchise is Despicable Me, also from Universal and Illumination, which has earned $5.64 billion over six films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDomestically, the Mario movies are the fifth-biggest animated franchise, following Despicable Me, Shrek, Toy Story and Inside Out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGalaxy, which saw Uni re-team with animation studio Illumination and Nintendo, follows the Mario gang, including Luigi, Yoshi, Bowser and Princess Peach, on an adventure into outer space to save Princess Rosalina (Brie Larson) from Bowser (Jack Black) and his son, Bowser Jr. (Benny Safdie). Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Glen Powell and Donald Glover are also among the voice cast for the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLionsgate and Universal\u2019s Michael Jackson biopic Michael continues to inch closer to that $1 billion marker. In its seventh weekend of release, Michael has a global total of $888 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In good news for Universal, movie theaters and men who are considering buying a pair of overalls, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2478,93,61,60,270,169782],"class_list":["post-487869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-super-mario-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}