The Super Mario Bros. Movie Tops $500 Million in North America - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 May 2023 / 2,752 Views
The Super Mario Bros. Movie in the domestic box office (US and Canada) has surpassed a new milestone having grossed over $500 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The movie is the first Illumination and Universal animation title to ever top $500 million at the domestic box office, not adjusted for inflation. It is the second highest grossing animated film of all time domestically and the third biggest Universal release ever, only behind Jurassic World and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is only the fourth movie in the pandemic era to top $500 million at the domestic box office. The other three movies are Spider-Man: No Way Home ($814.1 million), Top Gun: Maverick ($718.7 million) and Avatar: The Way of Water ($683.9 million).
The Super Mario Bros. Movie has also surpassed $1 billion at the global box office and is now at $1.16 billion globally, according to The-Numbers.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie grossed $204.6 million in its five day opening domestically and $377 million worldwide. The movie in its opening set many records including the highest-grossing debut of 2023, beating the previous holder, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which earned $225.3 million worldwide.
The movie is by far the highest grossing video game movie of all time easily surpassing 2016's Warcraft and 2019's Pokémon Detective Pikachu.
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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There is a mistake in the last line of the article which has also been featured in previous articles about this movie.
"The movie is by far the highest grossing movie of all time easily surpassing 2016's Warcraft and 2019's Pokémon Detective Pikachu."
You should write HIGHEST GROSSING VIDEOGAME MOVIE OF ALL TIME. You are missing the word videogame.
I'd like to think the article comes from a different reality where the top grossing films are all video game movies. Warcraft and Detective Pikachu are clearly their version of Avatar and Titanic.
Yeah, that seems like a reasonable assumption
