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With Tuesday's grosses, Illumination/Nintendo/Universal's The Super Mario Bros. Movie has crossed the $100M (13.74B yen) mark in Japan. In doing so, it becomes Universal's top title ever there. In local currency, Mario overtakes Top Gun: Maverick as the No. 6 Hollywood film of all time in Japan, and is…

Universal trotted out a dog, some "possessed" girls and a Wicked light show, during its CineEurope presentation here in Barcelona, while also celebrating the studio's force in the animated space and touting next month's Oppenheimer from Christopher Nolan. All this followed a reel of filmmakers heralding…

For those who treasure a sense of place in movies, the new trailer for Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, a film set for release by Paramount in partnership with Apple Original Films in October, brings a flicker of hope. (Pete Hammond’s Cannes review is here.) True, it looks a little…

UPDATE, writethru: After crossing the $300M mark globally through Monday last week, Disney/Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has thrust to another milestone. The James Gunn-directed threequel handily crossed the half a billion mark in the sophomore frame and now sits at an estimated $528.8M global…

Comedy is back; Super Mario Bros has proved that laughs are good for a half billion dollars. The antihero business is intact. Both Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 and John Wick: Chapter 4 hit their marks. But affairs of the heart are still suffering at the movie box office. Love Again is the…

UPDATED, after exclusive: Disney Marvel Studio’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 saw a momentum last night with previews rising to $17.5M, which is very good for the movie. There’s been some concern heading into the weekend about how hard threequelitis is poised to hit this movie, which is very odd…

UPDATE, writethru: Illumination/Nintendo/Universal's The Super Mario Bros Movie has got super game as it levels up to cross 1B$ at the global box office through Sunday. It now becomes the 10th animated film in history to cross $1B worldwide, and is the 10th biggest animated film of all time globally…

SUNDAY AM Writethru: After Saturday post Two holdovers, Super Mario Bros Movie and Evil Dead Rise, are continuing to have a gravitational pull on the under-25 set, while frosh wide releases once again this spring are seeing single-digit million results. Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s Super Mario Br…

Illumination/Nintendo/Universal's The Super Mario Bros Movie has notched yet another milestone, crossing the $900M mark globally with Tuesday's grosses included.  Through 21 days in release, the worldwide cume is $901.2M with $444M from domestic and $457.2M at the international box office. As we…

MONDAY AM UPDATE: Good news for Universal and Warner Bros on this first day of CinemaCon: Their movies came in higher at the box office. Illumination/Universal/Nintendo’s The Super Mario Bros Movie now counts a third weekend of $59.9 million, still the highest third weekend ever for an animated movie but…

Refresh for latest…: Illumination/Nintendo/Universal's The Super Mario Bros Movie continues its global domination, now with an estimated $871.8M through Sunday. Of that, $437.5M is from the international box office. The next worldwide benchmark of $900M will follow in the next days. It’s only a matter of…

MONDAY UPDATE, with Super Mario actuals: Illumination/Nintendo/Universal's The Super Mario Bros Movie has come in even higher with Sunday actuals now tallied, and has mushroomed to $693.1M global through the weekend. This means it will have over $700M in its worldwide pipeline when today's figures are…