Illumination and Universal’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie at $372.5M worldwide is the second highest grossing movie in the Nintendo videogame plumbers big screen franchise behind 2023’s Super Mario Bros‘ $387.8M, but, damn, did this sequel make a ton of cash this weekend. Overseas in 80 territories, and more than 23,500 locations and 54,000 screens, part…
Mamma mia! “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” powered up at the Friday box office and is on its way to an explosive opening weekend. “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” earned $48.3 million from 4,252 North American theaters on Friday, and is projected to make $129.4 million domestically by Sunday. That figure, in conjunction with the…
Photo: Universal/Everett Collection The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has an awful lot going on, including the addition of a bunch of characters familiar to Nintendo fans. The film gives us proper introductions to icons like Yoshi and Rosalina, and even Star Fox’s Fox McCloud, but is somehow still missing the best character in the entire…
Out of the gate, Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie already is breaking records with a $34M Wednesday. That’s the best opening day so far this year — besting Amazon MGM Studios’ Project Hail Mary, which rang up a $33.1M Friday/previews — but it’s also the best opening Wednesday in April, beating 2023’s The Super…
In “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” we meet Yoshi, a cuddly green dinosaur in pink boots who looks like a plastic bath toy and will eat just about anything (he’s voiced in a babyish coo by Donald Glover). We also meet an army of Lumas, the icky-adorable iridescent stars in designer colors who are the…
Donald Glover, who stars in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” as Yoshi, “campaigned for the role,” according to his co-star Jack Black. Black, who reprises his voice role as Bowser in Universal Pictures’ animated sequel, told ExtraTV, “It’s kind of a cool thing. We got lucky that we got Brie [Larson], who crushes it and…
As Yoshi makes his big onscreen debut in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Childish Gambino fans might hear a familiar voice. Donald Glover, who voices the beloved Nintendo dinosaur in the sequel premiering April 1, “campaigned for the role,” according to his co-star Jack Black, who reprises his voice role as Bowser in the Universal…
