The Super Mario Bros. Movie Set To Reach $1 Billion This Weekend
Surprising no one, The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been doing extremely well at the box office. However, I’m not sure many of us saw it doing so well in such a short amount of time. In just 26 days, the video game adaptation is set to surpass $1 billion, that is “billion” with a “b”. With that kind of dough, Mario is just cosplaying a plumber at this point.
Deadline reports that the estimates through Sunday see The Super Mario Bros. Movie crossing the $1 billion mark globally. This comes after the film “sailed past $900M worldwide” earlier this week. While this weekend’s openings in Korea and Japan helped boost the film’s numbers, it was already well on track to reach that goal. In fact, many reports had the movie reaching this goal last week, prior to its Japanese release.
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Again, the success of the film should not come as a shock. Since its release earlier this month, the movie has been breaking records and sailing past expectations. Its record-breaking opening weekend saw the Italian plumber and his green brother overtaking Marvel’s third Ant-Man film at the box office. Plus, it quickly beat Frozen 2 for the best-performing animated film in its debut week. If Scott Lang and Elsa couldn’t stop Mario, nothing can.
The film currently sits as the best-performing video game adaptation ever after surpassing Warcraft and Detective Pikachu. Oddly enough, it is also the third film from Illumination Studios to cross the $1 billion mark and the third-biggest animated film ever. It sits just behind Minions and Despicable Me 3 proving that overalls are totally in at the moment.
Of course, it wasn’t all smooth sailing for Mario’s animated
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