Decades after the last film, The Super Mario Bros. Movie lived up to the hype that was built because it did not disappoint during its three-day opening weekend as it secures the box office numbers needed to set a global record for the biggest opening for an animated flick!
The Super Mario Bros. Movie caught the whole slate in a landslide during its opening weekend as it secured the global box office record of being the biggest worldwide opening for an animated movie in the entirety of the history of animated movies!
The numbers came from the three-day opening weekend of The Super Mario Bros. Movie in theaters where it secured $137 million domestically and its five-day opening stretch that brought the movie $195 million globally. During the weekend, the global box office brought in $173 million.
All in all, over the span of a few days, The Super Mario Bros. Movie already got $368 million in its bag, making it the film with the biggest global opening weekend, even defeating the record of Frozen 2 which had $358 million.
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This year, The Super Mario Bros. Movie also stands to have the biggest global opening for this year, 2023, defeating Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania's $225.3 million.
However, for the domestic release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, its opening weekend numbers only secured the second spot with $137 million. The movie is behind The Incredibles 2 which had a domestic opening weekend of $180 million.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie cast are Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek, and Sebastian Maniscalco as Foreman Spike.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a collaboration between Universal Pictures, the distributor of the movie, Nintendo, the producer of the famous game franchise, and Illumination, the production studio.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is now out in theaters worldwide.