Movie Monday: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Soars to New Heights

I can think of a few words that Universal Pictures is probably cheering as they watch The Super Mario Galaxy Movie continue to rake in a kingdom’s worth of coin:

“Wahoo! Yippee! Let’s-a go!”

Yes, to little surprise, the Mario sequel maintained its lead at the box office this weekend, despite a decent 48% drop in audience attendance from last weekend. Nevertheless, it made another $69 million from domestic audiences. That means its domestic total rose to $308.1 million and its worldwide cume powered up to $628.8 million in a mere two weeks. Maybe next week another film will 1-Up this winner.

The second movie on this list also stars galactic travel: Project Hail Mary generated another $24.6 million this weekend. In the U.S. and Canada, that brings its earnings to $256.7 million; worldwide, the movie has captured $510.7 million.

Dark comedy The Drama stayed in third place again. This time, the A24 film took another $8.7 million from North American pockets. For better or worse, its domestic cume sits at $30.9 million. And whether you consider the movie’s earnings rich or poor, its worldwide gain landed at $42.7 million.

You, Me & Tuscany is the first newcomer on this list, debuting in fourth place. The romantic comedy cooked up an $8 million gain. Despite the film taking place in Italy, its international earnings fell far flatter at just over $1 million.

Entering into its sixth week since release, Hoppers managed to keep itself from falling out of the top five. It bit into another $4.1 million domestically, which raises its domestic total to $157.1 million. And worldwide, the movie has chomped down on $354.4 million.

As for other new releases (and I promise my Caps Lock isn’t broken), BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ in GOYANG: LIVE VIEWING took sixth place with $2.4 million. And in seventh was Exit 8, the second horror movie released this year based on an indie game (the first being Iron Lung). Exit 8 didn’t fare as well as Iron Lung, however, debuting to $1.4 million.

Still, Exit 8 did a little better than Faces of Death, which landed in eighth place with $1.37 million. And Faces of Death premiered higher than two other movies centered on death: Hunting Matthew Nichols and Hamlet. The former opened in 13^th place with $600,000, and the latter—alas, poor Yorick—only made $190,000, finding itself in 17^th.