Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie grossed $12.10M this weekend (from 3,419 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $402.68M.

Nice that it’s near as expected for its 5th weekend as its daily numbers will be below $1M beginning this Monday along with weekdays; while Tuesday discounts might have a shot of $1M, it should hold well on its 6th weekend even though with The Sheep Detectives making its debut as another family movie option

tangentially related, here’s a snippet from a recent interview with miyamoto where he addressed the movie’s botched pacing:

>[“Another approach is to create things using small, partial units. For example, 30 units of 3 minutes each make up 90 minutes. And it’s very similar to my own method; I don’t make anything unnecessary, but I hardly throw anything away either. So, Illumination’s technique involves a lot of swapping and rearranging of those units, creating something with incredible density. Another thing is, for example, parents sitting there out of a sense of responsibility for taking their children to the movie theater, or a story that’s moving for the parents but the children are running around the theater. I’ve always wanted to make a movie that isn’t like that, so in that sense, I think it was good that we decided to make it a fast-paced 90 minutes that would be over in no time to catch your breath.”](https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-explains-why-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-is-so-fast-paced/)

this movie’s performance is still great, but with it going down in almost every market from the first one, this strategy isn’t gonna work forever — not just for the mario movies, but for any nintendo movie that miyamoto’s heavily involved with