Project Hail Mary will be available digitally on April 28th. pic.twitter.com/9X9knqn4a4
— The Beyond Reporter (@BeyondReporter_) April 5, 2026
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie earned $8.41 million on its first weekend at the Australian box office, buoyed by the Easter long weekend. It earned $9.44 million once its opening Wednesday box office was added, making it the highest opening weekend in Australia so far.
Project Hail Mary was second with $4.84 million.
Worldwide, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie earned US$372.5 million on its first weekend, just below The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s US$387 million in 2023.
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Wdym?
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If it hadn’t been for major studio backing, wide releases and the popularity of VHS and TV at the time, I doubt Seagal and JCVD would’ve had the ‘fame’ they once had. Otherwise very much B (or C or even D) grade and straight-to-video types.
Only their first few were somewhat watchable and IMO their only ‘decent’ ones were “Under Siege” and “Hard Target”, also special mentions probably to “Universal Soldier”, “Nowhere To Run” & “Sudden Death” and “The Glimmer Man” & “Fire Down Below”.
Both their early 90s’ entries, apart from the aforementioned, absolutely sucked ass. But for some reason seemed to be prolific on DVD sets and TV in later decades.
Image courtesy The Movie Professor on X.
It’s a joke from the movie.
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Vincent D’Onofrio’s sit down with GQ a couple of days ago on YouTube is great, recommended, the story on MIB is fantastic:
His impressions of John Huston, George C Scott and Barry Sonnenfeld are brilliant!
Saw Aussie movie The Deb (which was embroiled in lawsuits between Rebel Wilson, the producers, and one of the movie’s leads Charlotte MacInnes) at Hoyts Chadstone yesterday and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie at Hoyts Melbourne Central today. Both were fantastic.
EDIT: I saw The Super Mario Galaxy Movie on ScreenX.
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie was OK, but not as good as the first.
Saw it at Hoys Blacktown in their ScreenX cinema - for the format to work, you really need a curved screen. The box shaped format of the auditorium doesn’t work - the corners are way too obviously. SMG was a ScreenX formatted movie but didn’t really do the format any favours.
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100%, omg it’s mind numbing (I don’t mind the odd good trailer, but the ads are just woeful). Especially after it’s had a theatrical run of multiple weeks already, reduce it by half. Look at a picture like PHM, nearly 3 hours + probably still nearly half an hour of ads/trailers 
I had two Michael Vassili ads at the last film I went to. and boy are they cheap as. It’s stock footage and this picture of a goofy lawyer and four fairly attractive ladies - like he could ever get that many attractive people to work for him. 
Mr Rothman is bang on.
It’s usually about 20 minutes. I usually buy tickets online and that usually gives you a calendar invite with the end time which you can usually work out with run times available online.
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A fascinating read, ‘Volcano wars’, from The Sting on X.
Talking about behind the scenes dramas on two Hollywood blockbuster productions in the late 90s and the studio race fight.
IMO, I feel most agree, neither are great by any means, but “Dante’s Peak” is the superior movie, even if “Volcano” got Tommy Lee Jones (at that exact time just about the biggest star around) & Fox were having mega hits (Titanic, Independence Day, etc).
Disaster movies were all the rage in the late 90s / early 2000. A resurgence from the 70s.
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April 24 marks 40 years since Crocodile Dundee was released in Australian cinemas.
In this week’s edition of Good Weekend magazine inside The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald (paywall), there is an article on the movie and why it could have been a box office flop.
Disney already entirely exited the Australian market. Internationally they’ve outsourced distribution to other companies (including in the U.S to Sony), but the masters were always built by Disney. Perhaps they’ve just outsourced the entire thing to Sony now.