Super Mario Bros. The Movie It has already exceeded one billion dollars in box office collectionbecoming the first film of 2023 to achieve this milestone, while continuing to break and preparing to break other records.
Available in theaters since April 5, the Universal, Illumination and Nintendo film has been a success wherever it has been released, with the exception of China, where it barely reached $13.3 million in its first release. week in theaters, despite having good comments from critics in the country. The data is important, since China is, after the United States, the largest market in the world and success there may depend on a film reaching stratospheric heights.
The fact is more than anecdotal, because with data from last week, the total collection of Super Mario Bros. The Movie in China it had stagnated at 20.5 million, while in countries like Spain or Italy the amount reached 19.6 and 17.2 million, respectively. Only in the United States, the box amounted to 434.3 million dollars. All this, it is worth repeating, with data from last week.
As a curiosity, it was not until this past weekend when the film was released in Japan with a version specially adapted to its market and with a very good response from the public.
With data from yesterday things change for the better and the sum of 490 million from the US box office and 532 from the international box office support Super Mario Bros. The Movie to several podiums, as well as project it to others that are still, or not, able to give themselves. What the new adaptation of the most popular video game character has already done is the billion mark, being the first film of the year to achieve it.
Besides, Super Mario Bros. The Movie is the fifth “post-pandemic” film that manages to amass such an amountafter, by billing order, Avatar: The Sense of Water ($2,318), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1,921) and Top Gun: Maverick ($1,493), since Jurassic World: Dominion ($1,001) has already exceeded it. Being close to a month after its theatrical release, it does not seem that things will go much further, seeing the marks of the other films, but you never know.
Be that as it may, Super Mario Bros. The Movie has already been crowned the highest-grossing film based on a video game in history and not by little, and it is that the record was held warcraft: the origin with 439 million dollars (achieved, curiously, thanks to its success in China, since in the rest of the world it was a failure). The list goes on with Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, Rampage, sonic 2 the movie and Unchartedall above 400 million.
Super Mario Bros. The Movie It has also broken a few other records, but of lesser depth or very specific; However, it remains to be seen how far it will go as an animated film, a list where it has also slipped in with nuances through different holes, but in which it has yet to enter the top ten world. And there is no doubt that she is going to do it this week. The question is how deep the entrance will be, and that is that the slope is pronounced.
