Update [Sat 15th Apr, 2023 06:00 BST]: IN quite an important update by Varietyit has been confirmed Movie Super Mario Bros. crossed the $500 million mark at the global box office in just over a week.
Its combined domestic and international sales add up to one big 508.7 million USD. This makes it the highest-grossing film of 2023 (passing Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania) and officially became the biggest video game adaptation in cinematic history – before movies like ghost And Detective Pikachu.
original story [Fri 14th Apr, 2023 11:30 BST]:
Movie Super Mario Bros. is poised to become the highest-grossing video game movie ever, surpassing Detective Pikachu and ghost The movie is just over a week after its release.
Latest figures from Ticket Office Mojo shows that the film has earned $437,946,600 worldwide, for a domestic total of $250,958,695 and an international total of $186,987,905 (via collider).
That means it easily surpasses 2016’s Warcraft, which currently ranks above the worldwide gross. $439,048,914. Detective Pikachu in 2019 is done $433,005,346although Box Office Mojo also reports that the Pokémon movie has additional potential $16,532,334 in 2023 in the UK, which will bring the amount up to $449,762,638.
Despite that, it’s hard to see that Mario Movies doesn’t make another $20 million over the weekend, so whatever the current top, we’d expect Mario Movies to stagnate for a few days. next. It broke the record for Anime with the highest opening weekend. So what’s next, $1 billion?
The Illumination and Nintendo animated series has impressed audiences, with the film scoring a 96% Audience Score on Rotten tomatoes. However, the critics were a little less kind, and in our own reviewWe praised the film’s spectacle, but criticized its lack of content and story:
