Update [Sat 15th Apr, 2023 06:00 BST]: IN a pretty significant update thanks to Varietyit is now confirmed Movie Super Mario Bros it crossed the $500 million mark at the global box office in just over a week.
His combined domestic and international earnings amount to a huge 508.7 million dollars. This makes it the highest grossing film of 2023 (beating Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania) and officially makes it the biggest video game adaptation in film history – ahead of movies like Warcraft 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, overtaking it Detective Pikachu and Warcraft the film after being in theaters for just over a week.
The latest figures from Box Office Mojo show that the film has already grossed $437,946,600 worldwide, for a domestic gross of $250,958,695 and an international gross of $186,987,905 (via collider).
That means it’s easily on track to overtake 2016’s Warcraft, which currently holds the worldwide gross 439,048,914 dollars. Detective Pikachu 2019 made 433,005,346 dollarsthough Box Office Mojo also reports that the Pokémon movie has made a potential addition 16,532,334 dollars 2023 in the UK, which would bring him to $449,762,638.
Regardless, it’s hard to see The Mario Movie not making an extra $20 million over the weekend, so whichever movie comes out on top now, we think The Mario Movie will run it into the ground over the next few days. It has already broken the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend for an animated film. So what’s next, $1 billion?
Illumination and Nintendo’s animated film was a hit with audiences, with the film achieving a 96% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The critics were somewhat less kind, and in our own review we praised the film’s spectacle, but criticized it for the lack of content and story:
