Mamma mia! After months of anticipation and a genuinely attractive marketing campaign, Universal Pictures and Illumination brought another hit to their ranks. Thanks to the incredible public reception, Super Mario Bros: The Movie debuted with numerous box office records during its first 5 days on the theater, and could easily become the highest grossing film of the year.
In the United States and Canada, the tape premiered since last Wednesday. The projections were above $100 million dollars (mdd), but no one imagined the power of Mario and company. In the end, Super Mario Bros: The Movie grossed $204.6 million in its first 5 days. If we take into account the traditional weekend (Friday to Sunday), the collection was $146.4 million. In any case, we are facing a phenomenon that rarely occurs at the box office.
What box office records did Super Mario Bros: The Movie break?
- Best Global Opening for an Animated Feature ($377.5 million, beating out Frozen 2
- Best 5-Day Opening for a Film ($204.6 million)
- Third best opening on the Easter weekend (behind batman vs superman and Fast and furious 7).
- Second best opening for an animated film (behind the incredibles 2).
- 18th best global opening of all time
- Fourth best 3-day debut in the post-COVID era.
- Highest-grossing movie based on video games in history domestically (above sonic 2 and its $190.9 million dollars)
Until now, Super Mario Bros: The Movie accumulates $377.5 million dollars worldwidel, a figure that few imagined for the weekend. It helps a lot that the reception from the public is stellar, as that could ensure slight falls in the coming weeks. In Rotten Tomatoesthe audience gives it an approval of 96%, while in CinemaScore got a solid A (just one rung below the highest grade). Thanks to an April without direct competition, the path looks exceedingly promising for animation. If the recommendation of the public translates into the expected word of mouththe film could well exceed $400 million in the United States alone.
In Mexico, its figures were also crazy, since at the end of Sunday it already accumulated close to $500 million pesos. Considering, once again, the traditional weekend, its $390 million pesos place it as the sixth best debut in the history of Mexico. and the second largest for an animated film, behind toy story 4 ($455 million pesos). United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Australia, Italy and Brazil are other territories where Super Mario Bros: The Movie smashed the box office In China it debuted to $11.6 million, very much on par with recent Hollywood debuts, but with great audience ratings.
How far will Mario, Luigi, Peach and company go? If everything goes as expected, Super Mario Bros: The Movie it should have no problem exceeding $1 billion globally. If achieved, it would enter the top 10 highest-grossing animated films of all time, and would be the third Universal and Illumination film on that list (along with minions and Despicable Me 3). Considering the blockbusters that come in the remaining months of the year, and the box office reception they could have, it doesn’t sound unreasonable to think that Super Mario Bros it could be the highest grossing movie of the year.
They think that Super Mario Bros deserved such numbers at the box office? Did they add to the craziness of her opening weekend, or will they wait to see her perform at a less than packed performance?
Juan Jose Cruz I am one of those who always defended Robert Pattinson as Batman and can see the same movie in the theater up to 7 times. My guilty pleasure? Low budget horror movie.