TL;DR
Three weeks in, Mario is still on top, and the only new wide release this weekend couldn't knock him off.
MSM Perspective
Deadline and Variety file the third weekend as a straightforward hold story; Page Six leads with the worldwide number.
X Perspective
Nintendo and film-business X are tracking Galaxy's domestic pace against the 2023 original day by day, with the gap narrowing rather than widening.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie took another $7.43 million on Friday at the domestic box office, holding first place for a third consecutive weekend and pushing its worldwide total past $640 million since the April 1 opening. [1] Universal and Illumination's sequel is now the second-highest grossing film of 2026, behind only the sports comedy Pegasus 3, with a reported $110 million production budget already cleared several times over. [1]
Lee Cronin's R-rated Mummy reboot opened Friday in third place with $5.2 million, unable to unseat either Galaxy or Amazon MGM's Project Hail Mary, which took $5.22 million on its fifth Friday in theaters and crossed $530 million worldwide. [1][2] Project Hail Mary co-director Christopher Miller said this week the studio will extend its theatrical run rather than move the film to streaming. [1]
Box Office Mojo's weekend numbers show Galaxy's domestic total at $317 million through Friday, with a second-weekend drop of 47 percent from its $131.7 million opening — steeper than the 37 percent fall the first Mario movie posted in 2023, but from a higher base. [2] The sequel has earned more overseas in its first two weeks than the original did, and opens in Japan and South Korea on April 24. [3]
Peacock holds the streaming rights and is expected to take the film in August. Until then, Universal gets to keep counting. [1]
-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles
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