SATURDAY AM WRITETHRU after Friday PM post…: Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie still has the star power at No. 1 with $30M third weekend, -56%, after a $7.4M Friday, heading toward a $350.2M domestic take by Sunday. There’s a chance it could go higher, but that boils down to matinees today, of course. While this…
Universal’s animated sequel “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” remained No. 1 at the domestic box office, collecting $69 million from 4,284 North American theaters in its second weekend of release. Those ticket sales mark a 48% decline from its debut, a strong hold for a blockbuster of this scale. So far, the video game adaptation…
UPDATE, Friday PM: No major wide entries to shake the Earth before CinemaCon, but a very rich weekend that will keep exhibitors and studios in harmony next week. This is all thanks to the second frame of Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie which is posting $18.7 million Friday on its way to a $71M…
The box office hit a power-up this weekend, as “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” continued a healthy streak for family films in theaters. The animated sequel from Universal Pictures, Nintendo and Illumination raced to $190 million in the U.S. and Canada in its five-day holiday weekend debut, placing it solidly in first place, according to…
The “Super Mario Bros.” world has always been a family affair — it’s right there in the title. The wildly successful 40-year-old Japanese video game franchise features a pair of Italian American plumber brothers from Brooklyn who spend their time powering up and jumping around the Mushroom Kingdom. But their motley crew of friends and…
This story contains spoilers for “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.” Everybody’s favorite fearless and super capable princess is back for another adventure — along with the denizens of her kingdom and a pair of New York plumber brothers — in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.” Now in theaters, the follow-up to the 2023 blockbuster “The…
