The Super Mario Bros. Movie Becomes Biggest Video Game Adaption Ever
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is breaking records faster than anyone can say “It’s a-me, Mario.” After grossing over $500 million so far globally, it has become the most financially successful video game adaptation ever.
As Variety reports(Opens in a new window), the animated blockbuster has raked in $260.3 million in the US and $248.4 million internationally which takes its total global gross so far to $508.7 million. The huge earnings mean that it is now the biggest-grossing film of 2023, both in the US and globally, leaving Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the second-biggest grosser this year, trailing behind.
Taking the crown as the biggest video game adaption in history means it has overtaken Warcraft and Pokemon: Detective Pikachu. Those movies garnered $439 million and $431 million at the global box office respectively.
As Variety notes, The Super Mario Bros. Movie now ranks as the world’s second-biggest animated movie released since 2019. It would need to rake in more than the $942.5 million Minions: The Rise of Gru made to take the title of the biggest animated movie in the last four years.
To track as one of the biggest animated films of all time is a whole different ball game though. The most successful animated movie is the 2019 remake of The Lion King, which pulled in $1.66 billion at the global box office. As Engadget notes(Opens in a new window), The Super Mario Bros. Movie doesn’t rank in the top 50 yet in that field.
It’s a surprise it even got made though. After the critical and commercial flop of the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. movie (it only made $38.9 million on a $42 million budget), Nintendo was hesitant to license its intellectual properties for further film adaptations.
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