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 two did $182.4M while U.S. and Canada rang up $190M over the Wednesday through Easter stretch (and $130.9M over the Friday through Sunday span).
When it comes to the success of Super Mario Galaxy Movie “the franchise operates in a galaxy of its own in terms of its box office potential, capitalizing on its beloved IP and benefitting from the success of the 2023 film that generated massive goodwill thus adding box office momentum to its opening weekend potential. We will look for, as they say in the parlance of video gaming, this film to level up the box office in a big way not only in its opening week but for the entire month of April heading into the all-important summer movie season,” says Comscore Head of Marketplace Trends, Paul Dergarabedian.
Here’s how Super Mario Galaxy‘s records breakdown:
Global:
–Biggest global opening at the box office for 2026 as of April 5.
–The only animated franchise to have two titles open over $350M globally.
–Fifth biggest global opening ever for an animated film and the fourth biggest MPA animated opening of all time, behind only Zootopia 2 ($560.3M), Moana 2 ($389.3M) and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–Second highest global opening for Illumination of all time behind only The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–Second biggest global opening for a film based on a video game behind only The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–Fifth biggest global opening for a Universal film of all time behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Studio’s top three are Fate of the Furious ($541.9M reported), Jurassic World ($525.5M) and F7 ($397.6M).
Domestic:
–Biggest opening of 2026 YTD.
–Fourth biggest 5-day opening ever after Moana 2 ($225.4M), Super Mario Bros Movie ($204.6M), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ($200M)
–The biggest 5-Day Domestic Opening since Moana 2 ($225.4M)
–Fourth biggest 3-day over Easter weekend after Batman v. Superman ($166M), F7 ($147.1M) and Super Mario Bros ($146.3M).
–The 2nd highest 3-day domestic opening weekend for Illumination of all time behind only The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–The biggest 3-Day Domestic Opening since Wicked: For Good ($147M).
–The 2nd biggest 3-day animated domestic opening for a Universal film behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–The 3rd biggest 3-day domestic opening for a film based on a video game behind only A Minecraft Movie ($162.7M) and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
–Will join Shrek, Toy Story and Minions as the only animated franchises to have two titles open to more than $100M for three days at the domestic box office.
International:
–The biggest MPA International opening weekend of 2026
–The only animated franchise to have two titles open over $170M internationally (the first was $183.2M in like-for-likes).
–Second biggest international opening for an Illumination movie behind Super Mario Bros in like-for-likes
–Second biggest international opening for a videogame after Super Mario Bros.
