The movie of Super Mario Bros has broken its first record and is shaping up to become one of the highest grossing. In accordance with Deadline, the Illumination and Universal film grossed $377 million during its opening weekend. With this, he not only became the best opening of a film based on a video gamebut also an animated tape.
According to the figures of BoxOfficeMojo, Super Mario Bros. The Movie earned $204,628,865 in the United States, equivalent to 54.2% of total revenue. The international box office was placed at $173,000,000, which gives a total of $377,628,865 dollars. The figures are impressive for a movie based on a video game, surpassing other films like detective pikachu and sonic 2.
In the field of animated films, Super Mario Bros. The Movie stole the opening record from the incredibles 2from Disney and Pixar, as well as Frozen 2 from Disney. Another point to make is that also surpassed Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania with better income at its opening. The Marvel film not only fell short of its goal of promoting Phase 5, but it barely raised half of what Mario and his minions have achieved.
Super Mario Bros. The Movie also surpassed batman v superman and Fast 7, which premiered during Easter week. The big screen adaptation of the popular video game has resonated with the audience, who give it a 96% in Rotten Tomatoes. In contrast, specialized criticism gives you 56%, mainly bitter people who prefer to watch three hours of Irish or some boring Slovenian movie.
Super Mario Bros and the future of movies based on video games
The records of Super Mario Bros. The Movie Not only is this good news for Illumination, who in previous years achieved stratospheric figures with minions and My favourite villain 2. The millionaire income demonstrates the good moment that the adaptations of a video game go through, a phenomenon that is also replicated in the field of streaming.
Although there are fiascos like Uncharted either Halotapes like sonic 2, detective pikachu and the series of The Last of Us are examples of what can be achieved when a good budget is combined with experienced people. Companies like Sony have seen the potential to expand their intellectual properties into other media. The next to land on the small screen will be Horizon Zero Dawn (Netflix) and god of war (Amazon)while Grand Touring will hit theaters by Neill Blomkamp.
another movie that look for a second chance Street Fighter. After the collapse of The last Stand, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Capcom decided to try their luck again and will rely on Legendary to produce a new film. The creators of the popular fighting game know that must stay true to the source materialso they will be fully involved in the project.
If the studies know how to exploit the qualities of video games, it is likely that we will see more blockbuster adaptations. When that moment arrives, Super Mario Bros. The Movie will maintain first place on the list of most successful releases.