After posting the best opening weekend and five-day frame of 2026, Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie hasn’t let up, charting the best Monday year-to-date at the U.S. box office with $16.8 million. The running total for the animated sequel directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic is $207.6M after six days.
On Monday, per Comscore, there was a spillover from the Easter holiday, with 49% of K-12 schools off across the nation in addition to 9% of all colleges.
Other rankings for Super Mario Galaxy Movie‘s Monday:
Among Illumination animated movies, the sequel’s Monday ranks behind Super Mario Bros Movie‘s $20.1M from Easter Monday 2023 and Sing‘s December 26, 2016 Monday of $19.6M, and ahead of Minions: The Rise of Gru‘s July 4, 2022 take of $16M.
Among all Mondays in April, Super Mario Galaxy Movie is fourth after Avengers: Endgame ($36.8M, 2019), Avengers: Infinity War ($24.7M, 2018) and Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($20.1M), and ahead of F7 ($14M, 2017).
A repeat of No. 1 is definitely in Super Mario Galaxy‘s sights this weekend at the box office with mere counterprogramming on the marquee, i.e., Universal’s You, Me & Tuscany and IFC’s Faces of Death.
Worth noting as weekend 2 could be bound for some kind of ranking: 2023’s Super Mario Bros ranks as the second best weekend ever for an animated movie with $92.3M, behind 2024’s Inside Out 2 which did $101.2M.