The Super Mario Bros Movie Passes $1 Billion At Global Box Office
It’s honestly a bit hilarious to see how far the Super Mario Bros Movie has come since it was first released over Easter Weekend in early April. Recall that the movie was moved up two days to help try and counter the holiday weekend, and the critic reviews of the film weren’t positive overall. However, that didn’t stop it from having the biggest global release for an animated film and racking up the dollars as it went along. In fact, it did something that few other movies can do, get people to come back and see it again over the course of weeks.
If you’ve paid attention to the box office results, you’ll know that the Super Mario Bros Movie has had rather small weekly drop-offs. This past weekend was no different, and it set a record for the biggest 4th-weekend opening for an animated film. But the real sticking point here is that, as predicted by many, the film has crossed a billion dollars at the global box office:
Super Mario Bros. Movie reaches $1.02 billion globally https://t.co/RExJmgkhDZ"It’s only the fifth movie of pandemic times to join the $1 billion club, following “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Jurassic World Dominion” and “Avatar: The Way of Water.”" pic.twitter.com/UCciYeAEGu
To say that’s a huge accomplishment is an understatement. First, only a handful of animated films have crossed that milestone, most of which are owned by Disney or Pixar. So for Illumination to do this, for the second time, and do it with a movie about Mario is incredible.
Second, this furthers the gap between it and all the other video game adaptation films. None of them had passed $500 million at the global box office, yet here is Mario’s first film doing double that, and it’s not even done with its theatrical run!
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