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Speaker 2: analysis for entertainment industry insiders. It's Monday, April sixth, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six. I'm your host, Cynthia Littleton. I am co

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Speaker 2: editor in chief of Variety alongside Ramin Situta. I'm in LA.

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Speaker 2: world covering the business of entertainment. In today's episode, in

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Speaker 2: our Box Office, we'll hear from Bridy's Rebecca Rubin on

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Speaker 2: the big opening for the Super Mario Galaxy movie. This

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Speaker 2: sequel to Universal and Illuminations twenty twenty three blockbuster did

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Speaker 2: not disappoint. It ranks as the year's highest opening to date.

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Speaker 2: Savannah Guthrie returned to The Today Show as anchor for

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Speaker 2: Melvin at the start of today's episode. It looks like

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Speaker 2: there will be labor piece in Hollywood. The Writer's Guild

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Speaker 2: for conversations with Variety journalists about news and trends and

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Speaker 2: show business. If it's Monday, we're talking box office with

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Speaker 2: Rebecca Rubin. The Super Mario Galaxy movie came on strong,

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Speaker 2: Rebecca Rubin, thank you so much for joining me once

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Speaker 2: Rebecca. You have been telling Daily Variety listeners for months

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Speaker 2: now that Super Mario Brothers that this sequel was going

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Speaker 2: only question was how big it would be. So Rebecca

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Speaker 2: tell us, how did Super Mario Galaxy Movie perform?

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Speaker 3: This was another clear winner out of the gate for

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Speaker 3: and seventy two million dollars globally. So those are massive

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Speaker 2: Did it do well on imax and those kind of screens?

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Speaker 2: So True eight twenty four put out an adult drama

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