Super Mario Bros Movie Now Highest-Grossing Video Game Adaptation
When the Super Mario Bros Movie was announced, no one knew what to expect from it outside of some solid animation via Illumination, a team that has proven its staying power over the years. Then, there were the cast announcements, which made many wonder how the various characters would sound. Finally, as the movie got closer to its release date in theaters, people wondered how well it would do box office-wise. It was far from a guarantee that it would do well, and video game properties have been hit or miss at the box office. But with this movie, not only did it do great, it’s not the king of its hill.
Yesterday was the film’s one-week anniversary at the box office, and that’s all it took to beat the record that its genre had:
‘THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE’ has surpassed ‘WARCRAFT’ and is now officially the highest grossing video game movie adaptation of ALL TIME.
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