{"id":429936,"date":"2026-04-10T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/429936\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:50:10","slug":"super-mario-galaxy-movie-shooting-past-310m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/429936\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Shooting Past $310M"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFRIDAY PM:<\/strong> No major wide entries to shake the Earth before CinemaCon, but a very rich weekend which will keep exhibitors and studios in harmony next week. This is all thanks to the second frame of Illumination\/Nintendo\/Universal\u2019s Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a><\/strong> which is posting $18.7M today <\/strong>on its way to a $71M<\/strong> 3-day at 4,284 theaters, -46%. That will get the Chris Pratt, Jack Black, Charlie Day, Anya Taylor-Joy, etc ensemble to $310.1M <\/strong>by EOD Sunday. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs we told you, 2023\u2019s Super Mario Bros had the second best-second weekend for an animated movie at $92.3M (a -37% hold). Currently, Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a> has the seventh best second weekend for animated movie behind Inside Out 2 ($101.2M), Super Mario Bros, Frozen 2 ($85.9M), Incredibles II ($80.3M), Finding Dory ($72.9M) and Shrek 2 ($72.1M). <\/p>\n

\n\tSecond place remains the fourth weekend of Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Project Hail Mary <\/strong>with a $6.3M Friday, $25.5M<\/strong> 3-day at 3,817, -20%, and running cume by Sunday of $257.5M<\/strong>. That cume, should it hold, will be -3% behind Oppenheimer at the same point in time on Sunday. That multi-Oscar winning Christopher Nolan movie ended its domestic run at $330M, boosted further by myriad Imax and awards season re-releases. <\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal\u2019s You, Me & Tuscany <\/strong>is seeing $3.2M <\/strong>today (includes $750K previews) for an opening of $8.3M<\/strong> at 3,151 theaters. Currently, Rotten Tomatoes audiences are more amore with the Halle Bailey and Reg\u00e9-Jean Page movie than critics, 94% to 68%. <\/p>\n

\n\tA24\u2019s The Drama <\/strong>starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson is looking at an estimated $2.5M<\/strong> today with around $7.6M<\/strong>\u2013$8M<\/strong> second weekend in fourth at 3,151 sites. At the high end, that\u2019s a -44% hold. Zendaya\u2019s previous non-IP, Challengers, had a second weekend was $7.6M, -49%. <\/p>\n

\n\tFifth goes to Disney\/Pixar\u2019s sixth weekend of Hoppers<\/strong> with an estimated $4M<\/strong>, after a $1.1M <\/strong>Friday at 2,850 theaters. Running total is $157M. Elemental ended its domestic run at $154.4M. <\/p>\n

\n\tFRIDAY AM: <\/strong>Universal\u2019s Halle Bailey and Rege-Jean Page romance You, Me & Tuscany did $750,000 in previews at 2,550 theaters from showtimes that began at 2 p.m. Thursday. The $18M production is only expected to file in the high-single digits this weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Will Packer-produced movie comps to the previews of Sony\/TriStar\u2019s One of Them Days ($1.3M, $11.8M opening) and Angel Studios\u2019 Solo Mio ($744K, $7M opening).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe real news remains Illumination\/Nintendo\/Universal\u2019s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which is eyeing a second weekend between $60M-$70M. The sequel keeps all the Imax and PLFs screens.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Chris Meledandri-produced animated feature made $8M yesterday at 4,252 theaters, off 9% from Wednesday, ending its week at $180M and putting its nine-day running total at $239.1M. At the low end of its second weekend, $300M is within range.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rest of the week went as follows:<\/p>\n

\n\t2. Project Hail Mary (AMZ) 3,907 theaters, Wk $45.4M (-41%), Total $232M\/Wk 3<\/p>\n

\n\t3. The Drama (A24) 3,087 theaters, Wk $21.6M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t4. Hoppers (Dis) 3,290 theaters, Wk $9.2M (-24%), Total $153M\/Wk 5<\/p>\n

\n\t5. A Great Awakening (RSA) 1,289 theaters, Wk $3.6M\/Wk 1 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY PM: No major wide entries to shake the Earth before CinemaCon, but a very rich weekend which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,188325,327,149391,191475],"class_list":{"0":"post-429936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mario-galaxy-movie","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-super-mario-galaxy-movie","15":"tag-you-me-and-tuscany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116382860905877933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}