There’s a universal language being spoken this week, and that’s Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie which is posted a full-day Wednesday global figure of $68.4M, $33.9M of that from 78 markets.
That’s a bigger result worldwide than the first Super Mario Bros Movie which posted a first day (reported, not adjusted for inflation) of $66.4M ($34.7M offshore).
Several records were broken. Ala the U.S. and Canada, Mario’s legacy as a console game translates at the box office, hence robust tickets sales for most of Europe, and Latin America.
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No surprise, Mexico with $6.7M scored the biggest Universal opening ever there and the second biggest animated opening ever. The first day beat Super Mario Bros‘ $5.9M, that pic finaling at a reported $85.3M, the second biggest territory for the movie after the $101M+ racked up in Japan (which was the
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