Super Mario Galaxy Movie Box Office Is Still A Galaxy Away From $1 Billion
Super Mario Galaxy Movie keeps racking up coins, but it’s still far from the $1 billion milestone—and so far, it isn’t on pace to outjump its predecessor, even with an April launch and Chris Pratt among the voice cast.
Okay, so, if you’ve been keeping tabs on animated box office juggernauts, here’s the latest on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie—and for everyone betting it’d hit $1 billion in record time, you might want to cool your engines a little.
Still Racking Up Coins, But Not Quite a Billionaire
The movie‘s been climbing, crossing a pretty wild $800 million globally (officially at $831 million), but it still hasn’t caught up with The Super Mario Bros Movie from 2023, which plowed through the finish line with a massive $1.36 billion haul. For a sequel, anything under a billion is always going to look like you got the silver medal, even though $800+ million is nothing to scoff at.
Who’s Voicing Your Favorite Mushroom-Kingdom Citizens?
If you somehow missed it, the film features Chris Pratt (yep, still doing his Mario thing) and Anya Taylor-Joy, among other big voice names. Basically, Nintendo and Universal pulled out their checkbooks.
Box Office: The Heavy Hitters
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: $831 million (so far)
- Michael (the biopic): $217 million right out of the gate
- Project Hail Mary (Ryan Gosling): $600+ million
- Last year’s Mario Bros Movie: $1.36 billion (for comparison... and possibly for Nintendo's bragging rights wall)
Competition Isn’t Letting Up
What’s keeping Mario from running up the scoreboard even faster? Well, the new Michael biopic (about Michael Jackson, starring Jaafar Jackson) just swung in with a record-breaking $217 million global opening weekend. That’s the biggest launch for a biopic ever. But even with that heat, it still didn’t touch Mario Galaxy’s own opening, which clocked in at $375 million—a much bigger debut than anything else this year. Not to be left out, Ryan Gosling’s Project Hail Mary is quietly raking it in too, now north of $600 million.
Sequel? Spin-off? Smash Bros Cinematic Universe?
Naturally, the minute a Mario movie does blockbuster numbers, the internet starts pitching a Nintendo Cinematic Universe. Sorry to burst that speculation bubble—Mario mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto spoke to Polygon in March and basically threw cold water on the whole team-up idea. His words?
"I don't think you'll have a situation [where] all Nintendo characters would be joining [together in one film]."
So, for those dreaming of Mario leading a squad with Link, Kirby, and Samus on the big screen… it’s probably not happening (at least not on Miyamoto’s watch).
The Bottom Line
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is still a massive success, just not yet in legendary, world-destroying, $1-billion territory. And with this much competition, it might take a little longer (or just never get there). But in Hollywood accounting land, banking $831 million and still counting is hardly a consolation prize.