The Year of Nintendo is upon us. As the studio awaits the release of its hotly-anticipated game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo’s newest movie continues its box office domination.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is officially in the Billion Dollar Club, as the film jumped past $1 billion at the global box office this weekend. It sat number one at the box office for the fourth week in a row, as Super Mario Bros. had the month of April to itself.
Domestically, The Super Mario Bros. Movie brought in another $40 million over the weekend, bringing it to $490 million for its North American haul. Overseas, the film brought in $68.31 million, netting an impressive $532.45 million internationally. It saw another exceptional hold as the film has legs and could play well through the rest of the summer.
This makes the video game adaptation the third Illumination film to earn $1 billion after Minions and Despicable Me 3, and the seventh best for Universal overall. As it crosses the billion-dollar mark, the film becomes only the 10th animated film to do so and the first animated movie since pre-pandemic times. It took only 26 days for Super Mario Bros. to achieve this goal.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie features the voice talents of Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek and Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike.
Based on the world of Nintendo’s Mario games, The Super Mario Bros. Movie invites audiences into a vibrant, thrilling new universe unlike any created before in an action-packed, exuberant cinematic comedy event. While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers Mario (Chris Pratt; Jurassic World and The LEGO Movie franchises) and brother Luigi (Charlie Day; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a magical new world. But when the brothers are separated, Mario embarks on an epic quest to find Luigi.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is now playing in cinemas worldwide.
