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[Update] The Super Mario Bros. Movie to Become Highest Grossing Video Game Movie Today - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 April 2023 / 6,110 Views
Update:
The Super Mario Bros. Movie has now grossed over $500 million worldwide and is the highest grossing video game movie of all time.
Original article:
The Super Mario Bros. Movie had a huge debut earning $204.6 million in its five day opening domestically (US and Canada) and $377 million worldwide.
The movie has now grossed over $437 million as of April 13, which is just below the $439 million record for highest grossing video game movie. The record was set by Warcraft in 2016.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie will become the highest grossing movie of all time once you add in today's grosses.
In its opening weekend, The Super Mario Bros. Movie broke many records. This includes the highest-grossing debut of 2023, beating the previous holder, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which earned $225.3 million worldwide. It also set the record for the biggest five day opening of all time, beating 2009's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which earned $200 million. It should be of note this is a record specifically for five day openings as three Marvel movies earned over $250 million in three days.
Other records set include the biggest Illumination opening of all time, beating the $208 million grossed by Despicable Me 2 in 2013, as well as the biggest video game opening of all time, beating the $210 million earned by Warcraft in 2016.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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$1 Billion, here we come!
It's over 500 million now
Offtopic but I wish the Warcraft movie could've been this successful. That movie was great!
it's still number 2 i think although the budge it for that movie was higher the other video games movies, Blizzard should try another movie for a more popular IP like Overwatch.
It failed to make its money back. It needed $500 million to break even and fell short of that. Losses were estimated from $15M to $50M. That it did as well as it did at all was almost entirely down to the Chinese market. It flopped hard in North America.
That describes critics in general when it comes to video game movies, even good ones like this movie and Detective Pikachu.
@Trunkswd Box Office Mojo is currently a terrible source for that stuff. That domestic number is from Wednesday and the international number is straight up wrong. They had it at 194mil but suddenly lowered it down despite other sites still having it at that number as of Wednesday and they update the numbers very late. It became the highest grossing video game movie on Wednesday. As of now it's at 509mil.
Here's a better source: https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Super-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)#tab=summary
I didn't realize BoxOfficeMojo didn't have good numbers. Everyone seems to link to them.
Congratulation! the 1 billion is incoming
I really wish my son was a tad older and have a little more than a 10m attention span with movies to go see this one with him. Congrats to Nintendo, Universal and Illumination Entertainment.
Gonna easily pass $1 billion which is pretty incredible. Over 670 million now after just two weekends. And apparently the movie cost about $100 million to make. Movies are going to be a MAJOR source of revenue/profits for Nintendo going forward. Wouldn't be surprised if a sequel Mario movie, a DK movie, and a Zelda movie are green lit in the coming months.
Let's-a go!
Well deserved. ^^
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