With a strong opening weekend and a box office that has exceeded expectations so far, the animated film “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is continuing to set new records without fail. Who can predict from the beginning. Specifically, the animated film of Illumination and Nintendo has reached approximately $ 700 million in global box office revenue by the end of last weekend, the second week of release, and is rapidly approaching the milestone of $ 1 billion. .
Based on Nintendo’s classic video game series, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” became the highest-grossing video game film adaptation of all time when it hit $500 million mid-week. In its second weekend, the film continued to rank at No. 1 in many markets around the world and grossed $92.5 million over the past three weekends in North America alone, as well as $102.5 million. in 71 other countries. Overall, the film has grossed $693.1 million as of Sunday, April 16.
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is the highest-grossing movie of 2023 up to now
The film released by Universal Pictures clearly surpassed initial expectations and became the highest-grossing film of the global box office of 2023 so far. In the past week, it beat out new films like “The Pope’s Exorcist” and “Renfield” to hold the dominant position.
Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” joins Illumination’s list of animated hits, including “Despicable Me”, “Minions”, “Sing”, and “The Secret Life of Pets”. Since its release, the film has received mixed reviews from experts, but the general audience’s opinion has been extremely positive.
In many ways reminiscent of Nintendo’s video games, the animated film is like a trip back to childhood for adult audiences, and something new for younger audiences, who Never experienced the game before. As for Nintendo, the success of “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” will surely strengthen the belief to adapt many of the company’s other popular game lines into movies.
