The outer space plumbers continue to reign supreme around the world with an $83.2M global weekend ($35M dom, $48.2M overseas at 82 territories) taking Super Mario Galaxy Movie‘s global running cume to $747.4M ($355.2M domestic, $392.2M overseas). But the bigger deal is that the Illumination/Nintendo/Universal franchise through two pics has now clicked past $2 billion, becoming the 10. animated feature film series of all-time. Illumination’s Chris Meledandri now has three animated franchises in the top 10 including 1. Desppicable/Minions, No. 4 Ice Age and No 10. Super Mario.
As we told, you Super Mario Galaxy is officially the highest grossing movie year-to-date, finally unseating China’s race car pic Pegasus 3 ($647.8M).
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The sequel’s sole opening was Israel with a No. 1 bow of $700K in line with Zootopia, Toy Story 4, and Incredibles 2. Japan, which is gonna be big, opens next weekend.
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