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- ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ has secured the biggest box office launch for the year to date.
- It’s a sequel to 2023’s ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’.
- ‘Project Hail Mary’ was pushed to second, but is still performing well.
Easter Weekend feels like the appropriate date for the return of a character. In this case, it’s Mario (voiced in animated form by Chris Pratt), back in ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.’
The sequel to 2023 hit ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ has been scoring plenty of points at the box office –– as it was predicted to –– earning $130 million domestically and $182.4 million internationally across its five-day extended release period for a global total of $372.5 million so far.
scNm2cdIP2SiSm2TtS8Op3While the new movie didn’t quite hit the highs of the original, it certainly came close, and Universal will certainly be happy with its performance, which once again happened despite some caustic reviews.
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What else happened at the box office this weekend?
Amazon MGM’s sci-fi outing ‘Project Hail Mary’, which enjoyed a brief run as the biggest 2026 box office launch to date, continues to do well, dropping just 43% in its third weekend. It has now earned $217 million domestically and more than $400 million internationally, and despite losing some premium format screens to ‘Mario’, is still drawing crowds.
Third place was the week’s other main new entry, A24 drama ‘The Drama’. Starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, the controversial movie took in $13.6 million domestically.
In fourth place, Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ earned $5.8 million, pushing its own total to more than $332 million worldwide.
And in fifth, we find ‘Reminders of Him,’ with the Colleen Hoover adaptation making $2.3 million in its fourth weekend of release.
What’s coming next at the box office?
‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ looks to have little major competition coming up in the family field, and next week brings rom-com ‘You, Me & Tuscany’ and thriller remake ‘Faces of Death’.
List of Movies Similar to ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie:’
- ‘Super Mario Bros.’ (1993)
- ‘Despicable Me‘ (2010)
- ‘Despicable Me 2‘ (2013)
- ‘The Lego Movie‘ (2014)
- ‘Minions‘ (2015)
- ‘The Secret Life of Pets‘ (2016)
- ‘Sing‘ (2016)
- ‘Despicable Me 3‘ (2017)
- ‘The Secret Life of Pets 2‘ (2019)
- ‘The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part‘ (2019)
- ‘Sonic the Hedgehog‘ (2020)
- ‘Sing 2‘ (2021)
- ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru‘ (2022)
- ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2‘ (2022)
- ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves‘ (2023)
- ‘Borderlands’ (2024)
- ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ (2024)
- ‘A Minecraft Movie’ (2025)
- ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie‘ (2026)