{"id":76236,"date":"2026-04-22T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76236"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:36:31","slug":"the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-passes-movie-youve-never-heard-of-to-become-2026s-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76236","title":{"rendered":"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Passes Movie You’ve Never Heard Of To Become 2026’s No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is now the No. 1 movie globally after surpassing a giant movie from China. Nintendo’s animated movie has now grossed $752 million globally, which puts it ahead of the previous No. 1 movie, Pegasus 3 ($641 million).<\/p>\n

The Chinese movie was released in February in China, and if you’ve never heard of it, that makes sense. It’s made 99.8% of its money from the Chinese market<\/a>, with only $1.37 million from the US.<\/p>\n

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, meanwhile, has made money in most major markets globally, including $358.7 million from North America alone. Some of the movie’s top international markets include Mexico ($49.6 million), the United Kingdom ($38 million), Germany ($30 million), Spain ($17.4 million), and France ($12.7 million).<\/p>\n

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Pegasus 3, meanwhile, earned $638.5 million from China alone, making up more than 99% of its total box office receipts. The next highest is North America ($1.37 million), but Pegasus 3 did not make $1 million or more in any other market globally, according to official box office data.<\/a><\/p>\n

The No. 3 movie globally for 2026 so far is Amazon’s Project Hail Mary, which has earned $575 million worldwide so far. There are numerous other heavy-hitters coming later this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is now the No. 1 movie globally after surpassing a giant movie from China. Nintendo’s animated movie has now grossed $752 million globally, which puts it ahead of the previous No. 1 movie, Pegasus 3 ($641 million). The Chinese movie was released in February in China, and if you’ve never…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":76238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76239,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76236\/revisions\/76239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}