Super Mario Galaxy Movie Lands On Peacock July 30 After Billion-Dollar Run

Illumination and Nintendo's space-set blockbuster becomes the only 2026 film to crack $1 billion globally before making its streaming debut at the end of next month.

Super Mario Galaxy Movie will premiere on Peacock on July 30, 2026.
The film completed a 120-day theatrical window before moving to streaming.
It is the only 2026 release to reach $1 billion at the global box office.
The film is a co-production from Illumination, Nintendo, and Universal.
The Peacock debut follows the same distribution playbook used for the 2023 original.

It was a quieter summer at the multiplex than Hollywood would have liked, and then one film about a plumber in space reminded everyone what a billion dollars looks like. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the follow-up to Illumination and Nintendo’s 2023 phenomenon, has cleared $1 billion at the global box office — the only 2026 release to do so — and it is now headed to Peacock on July 30.

The streaming date lands 120 days after the film’s theatrical opening, a window that has become standard for major Universal tentpoles. For subscribers who held off on the theater run, the wait ends in a single billing cycle.

The Galaxy installment moved the franchise off the Mushroom Kingdom and into a cosmic setting, a swing that apparently played well with the family-matinee crowd and the nostalgia tier in equal measure. The $1 billion milestone puts it in the same conversation as the original, which finished north of $1.3 billion worldwide and briefly became the highest-grossing video-game adaptation in history.

Peacock has leaned into the Universal library as a subscriber hook throughout 2025 and into this year, and a billion-dollar Mario title arriving at the end of July — peak family streaming season — fits that strategy without much argument. Universal has not announced a home-video date separate from the Peacock window. July 30 is the date on the calendar.