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Subscribe to our newsletter As the saying goes, records were made to be broken—and that's especially true if you invent a bunch of records just so you can say they've been broken.The Super Mario Galaxy Movie came out last week and, despite it kinda sucking, predictably had a monster of a weekend at the box office.

But after reading a bunch of stories breathlessly reporting that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie broke records on its opening weekend, I'm questioning exactly what records it broke and if they should even be considered records.

According to articles from around the internet, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie had:The biggest global opening of 2026 to dateThe biggest domestic opening of 2026 to dateThe biggest MPA international opening of 2026 to dateYes, TSMGM had a genuinely massive weekend (which began on Wednesday because that's when movie studios pretend the weekend begins so they can claim they had massive weekends).

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It made $372,487,455 worldwide ($190 million domestic and $182 million worldwide).

That's fantastic ## Editor's Note We'll have to wait and see how this plays out in the coming weeks. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/movies-tv/i-kept-hearing-that-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-had-a-record-breaking-weekend-but-then-i-looked-at-the-actual-records/)