SUNDAY AM WRITETHROUGH after Saturday update: Keep refreshing Illumination/Nintendo/Universal‘s Super Mario Galaxy Movie has revived tentpoles even further than Project Hail Mary with a $372.5M opening, the biggest worldwide debut for an MPA movie since Avatar: Fire & Ash. The 2023 Super Mario Bros in like-for-likes did $387.8M.
Foreign haul since Wednesday on the Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, etc. ensemble is $182.4M, including previews from 80 markets this weekend in 23,500 locations and 54,000 screens. Yes, the biggest foreign B.O. opening for a Hollywood movie YTD, and the second best international debut in like-for-likes for
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