{"id":572827,"date":"2026-04-09T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572827\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:31:09","slug":"super-mario-galaxy-movie-box-office-eyes-60m-70m-in-second-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572827\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Super Mario Galaxy Movie&#8217; Box Office Eyes $60M-$70M In Second Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIllumination\/Nintendo\/Universal\u2019s The Super <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mario-galaxy-movie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mario-galaxy-movie\" data-tag=\"mario-galaxy-movie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a> will continue to exert a gravitational pull on moviegoers in its second go-round with $60 million-$70 million second weekend, between a 47%-54% drop from its $131.7M three-day haul last frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe pic led by the ensemble of Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black and Glen Powell will keep all its Imax and PLF screens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRemember, 2023\u2019s\u00a0Super Mario Bros\u00a0ranks as the second-best second weekend ever for an animated movie with $92.3M, behind 2024\u2019s\u00a0Inside Out 2\u00a0which did $101.2M. However, Galaxy Movie is expected to be a bit more front-loaded given that it has very good, not platinum word-of-mouth (62% definite recommend to first pic\u2019s fantastic 82%). Still, Super Mario Bros did defy expectations in its second frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/super-mario-galaxy-movie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_super-mario-galaxy-movie\" data-tag=\"super-mario-galaxy-movie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a> made $14.8M yesterday, far and away the best Tuesday so far in 2026, ahead of Project Hail Mary\u2018s $9.4M (March 24). It was also the third best Tuesday in April ever after Avengers: Endgame ($33.1M) in 2019 and Super Mario Bros\u2018 $15.4M in 2023. Tuesday was off 12% from the $16.8M rung up on Easter Monday, which again was a record Monday YTD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUniversal is also providing cinemas with counterprogramming via the Will Packer- and Johanna Byer-produced romance You, Me &amp; Tuscany from director Kat Coiro and starring Reg\u00e9-Jean Page and Halle Bailey. Booked at 3,000 theaters, a high-single digits opening is expected for the feature targeted at Black females. You, Me &amp; Tuscany is also bowing in 21 offshore markets including the UK &amp; Ireland and Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBailey plays a woman who crashes at an empty Italian villa, posing as the owner\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, only to discover an unexpected romance that may transform her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe first sneak peek of the of the movie hit in November with a TikTok message from Bailey and Page. The trailer premiered November 16 and was amplified across Today, BET, Wicked: The Official Podcast earning over 1 million likes. The trailer went on to play in theaters in front of Wicked: For Good, Eternity,\u00a0The\u00a0Housemaid, Song Sung Blue, Send Help, Wuthering Heights, Scream 7\u00a0and\u00a0Reminders\u00a0of\u00a0Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illumination\/Nintendo\/Universal\u2019s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will continue to exert a gravitational pull on moviegoers in its second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,250450,247922,252194],"class_list":{"0":"post-572827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-mario-galaxy-movie","10":"tag-super-mario-galaxy-movie","11":"tag-you-me-and-tuscany"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}