{"id":514950,"date":"2026-04-05T23:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514950\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:13:10","slug":"super-mario-galaxy-movie-global-box-office-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514950\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Global Box Office Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s-a blockbuster, again! \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a>\u201d towered over the global box office with $372.5 million, including a notable $182.4 million internationally.<\/p>\n

\n\tThose ticket sales easily capture the title for the biggest worldwide debut of the year over Amazon MGM\u2019s space odyssey \u201cProject Hail Mary<\/a>,\u201d which bowed to $33.1 million overseas and $97.2 million worldwide in March. This start is roughly equal to the first installment in Universal and Illumination\u2019s video-game inspired franchise; 2023\u2019s \u201cThe Super Mario Bros. Movie\u201d ignited to $171 million overseas and a stellar $375 million worldwide in the same timeframe. That film became a four-quadrant smash with $1.3 billion globally.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSuper Mario\u201d is the only animated franchise to have two titles open to over $350 million globally, according to Universal. \u201cGalaxy\u201d also ranks as Hollywood\u2019s fourth-biggest animated debut ever after \u201cZootopia 2,\u201d \u201cMoana 2\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cThe Super Mario Bros. Movie,\u201d as well as Universal\u2019s fifth-biggest worldwide launch behind \u201cThe Super Mario Bros. Movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d cost $110 million to produce. It landed in 80 overseas markets; top territories were Mexico ($29 million), the United Kingdom and Ireland ($19.7 million), Germany ($15 million) and France ($12 million).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe adventures of Mario and Luigi were popular in Imax, where the film scored $22.2 million to rank as the company\u2019s second-best global opening for a Hollywood release. It\u2019s above the debut of \u201cThe Super Mario Bros. Movie,\u201d which launched to $21.4 million globally in Imax.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother intergalactic tale, \u201cProject Hail Mary,\u201d has also been a draw in Imax, where the blockbuster has earned $73.6 million to date (including $5 million this weekend).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d continues to dazzle the box office with $42.1 million from 86 overseas markets in its third weekend of release. That marks a scant 23% decline in ticket sales from last weekend. So far, the blockbuster has grossed $203.6 million overseas and $420.7 million globally. It\u2019s the first major commercial hit for Amazon MGM, which needed a win after the back-to-back financial misfires of \u201cMelania\u201d and \u201cCrime 101.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d and \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d are primed to dominate the box office for most of April. They have free rein until Lionsgate\u2019s \u201cMichael,\u201d a biopic about the King of Pop, debuts at the end of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s-a blockbuster, again! \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d towered over the global box office with $372.5 million, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,111196,105598,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-514950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-project-hail-mary","tag-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}