Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic\u2019s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has held onto the No. 1 spot for a third consecutive weekend, grossing an estimated $35 million domestically, as the film continues to dominate the spring season.<\/p>\n
The big headline, however, is a major franchise milestone. With roughly $747 million worldwide to date, the sequel has pushed the Mario film franchise past the $2 billion mark, further expanding the franchise\u2019s footprint among the most profitable video game adaptations.<\/p>\n
While those numbers confirm Nintendo and Illumination\u2019s box-office influence, the sequel\u2019s trajectory is trailing a bit behind that of the original The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), which ultimately grossed $1.36 billion worldwide. Early comparisons show the new film opened slightly below its predecessor globally ($372 million vs. $377 million) and has continued to run just behind it through subsequent weekends.<\/p>\n
That said, the drop-off is more modest than it is alarming. The sequel\u2019s second-weekend domestic decline hovered under 50%, a solid hold for a four-quadrant animated blockbuster, and a similar third-weekend performance suggests it will continue to sell lots of tickets through April.<\/p>\n
In practical terms, the sequel may not replicate the original\u2019s lightning in a bottle, but it doesn\u2019t need to. Already profoundly profitable as an individual film and crossing $2 billion as a franchise, it cements Mario as the gold standard for video game adaptations and confirms that Illumination and Nintendo have built something that will be well worth revisiting with more sequels, spin-offs, and tie-ins.<\/p>\n
Speaking of franchises, Toho\u2019s Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway, the latest from Japan\u2019s ever-reliable property, continues to perform to par, which is to say at a very high level. The film held onto the No. 1 spot in Japan for a second consecutive weekend and the No. 5 spot worldwide with $12.3 million, despite only being out in one market.<\/p>\n
Pixar\u2019s Hoppers is settling into a steady late-run phase. Now in its sixth week of release, Daniel Chong\u2019s original made another $2.9 million domestically and $7.9 million internationally, good for seventh place at the global box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic\u2019s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has held onto the No. 1 spot for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-389439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}