The Super Mario Galaxy Movie grosses $48 million
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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,
Day, who voices Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. franchise, name-checked one of his It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-stars as a potential voice actor for Wario, should the character pop up in a future Nintendo movie. The actor revealed this choice while speaking to ScreenRant, enthusiastically saying:
Super Mario Galaxy Movie' is looking at $188M+ over five days, 2nd best for Universal animated movie, while Zendaya 'The Drama' is $14M opening
In 45 years, Mario has gone from a nameless avatar in arcades to a pop-culture icon — and maybe saved gaming along the way.
As the snarky prologue to the 1993 film explains, this is not the Mario World you are accustomed to. Millions of years ago, the asteroid that hit the dinosaurs did not cause their extinction, but wedged them into a parallel dimension.