The Super Mario Bros. Movie Was the Most Profitable Movie Last Year - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 June 2024 / 4,990 Views
The Super Mario Bros Movie was a huge success for Nintendo and Illumination having grossed $1.36 billion at the worldwide box office making it the 2nd highest grossing animated movie of all time.
Deadline is now reporting The Super Mario Bros Movie was the most profitable movie of 2023 having earned $559 million in profit for the studio.
When you include productions, prints and ads, and more the movie had a total budget of $400 million. The movie generated $959 million in total revenue with $619 million brought in from the theatrical run when you subtract the movie theater cut, as well as $140 million from home entertainment and $200 million from TV and streaming.
Nintendo and Illumination in March of this year announced a new Super Mario Bros. movie is in development and it will release in theaters on April 3, 2026 in the US and other markets through April 2026.
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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Mario went from a laughing joke in the movie industry to Disney levels of success with 1 swoop.
Well done guys! Finally a major win for Nintendo IPs in film.
The amount of stuff Nintendo did right during the Switch era is outstanding. They took years to make these projects and could very well have jumped the gun and make a Mario movie to make some money in the Wii U era but decided not to. With Epic Universe, 2 new movies and the successor coming, i hope they keep having winning strikes.
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