{"id":690143,"date":"2026-06-07T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690143\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:21:09","slug":"box-office-super-mario-galaxy-movie-passes-1b-first-film-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690143\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: Super Mario Galaxy Movie Passes $1B, First Film of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIllumination, Nintendo and Universal\u2019s <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> is the first movie to cross $1 billion at the 2026 box office, the pic doing so in its tenth weekend of release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith the latest hit, The Super Mario franchise now crosses $2B, becoming the No. 9 biggest animated franchise worldwide and Chris Meledandri\u2019s third franchise in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSee below:<\/p>\n<p>Despicable Me, $5.64B, 6 films<\/p>\n<p>Shrek,\u00a0$3,98B. 6 films<\/p>\n<p>Toy Story, $3.28B, 5 films<\/p>\n<p>Ice Age, $3.22B, 5 films<\/p>\n<p>Zootopia, $2.89B, 2 films<\/p>\n<p>Frozen, $2.73B, 2 films<\/p>\n<p>Inside Out, $2.56B, 2 films<\/p>\n<p>Kung Fu Panda, $2.37B, 4 films<\/p>\n<p>Super Mario\u00a0films, $2.30B, 2 films<\/p>\n<p>Madagascar, $2.26B, 7 films<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u00a0debuted at No. 1 globally and remained in the top position for three consecutive weekends both globally and internationally. With $428.5M it\u2019s currently the highest grossing movie of 2026 at the domestic B.O. Overseas with $571.5M, it\u2019s currently the highest grossing MPA title. Worldwide it\u2019s second\u00a0highest grossing film based on a video game, behind only The\u00a0Super Mario Bros. Movie,\u00a0both globally and internationally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStateside, Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the second Illumination film to gross $400M, the second highest Illumination title after Super Mario Bros Movie, the 2nd highest grossing movie based on a videogame, and the 2nd highest grossing Universal animated pic after Super Mario Bros. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illumination, Nintendo and Universal\u2019s Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the first movie to cross $1 billion at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,247922],"class_list":["post-690143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-super-mario-galaxy-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690143","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=690143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}