news culture Super Mario Bros. The Movie is the highest-grossing video game adaptation, dethroning Warcraft!
Super Mario Bros. The Movie makes movie history as the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time.
It’s now official, with approximately $678 million in box office earnings, the Super Mario Bros. represents the highest-grossing video game adaptation in history to dateand thus dethroned Warcraft with its 439 million dollars by a clear margin. Third place is taken by Detective Pikachu with $433 million ahead of Rampage with $428 million.
Earlier in the week, we learned that the film raked in the best-ever animated second weekend at the domestic box office with $87 million, a figure that surpassed the previous animated second weekend record of Frozen 2 and its ilk $85.9 million. At the end of Thursday, April 13th, the Nintendo film had already passed the 500 million dollar mark at the worldwide box office without counting on the Japanese theatrical release and after a week of exploitation.
Note that the Nintendo film is also the current highest-grossing feature film of 2023, beating Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($474,218,208). Despite mixed press reviews, Super Mario Bros. The film breaks all scores at the box office.
Equal success in France?
In France, the feature film climbed to the top of the box office in its first week of operation with no less than 43% market share (1,866,914 admissions). However, Super Mario Bros. isn’t the movie to get the best start this year; they are the much maligned Asterix and Obelix : The Middle Empire, which amassed no fewer than 1,882,686 entries in its first week of operation. Note that the film was entitled to a series of screenings that took place in all corners of France, gathering no fewer than 275,658 visitors.
