After crossing over 1 billion dollars international at the box office after 26 days, Super Mario Bros. has now set some new domestic box office records in North America – skipping 500 million dollars evaluation.
According to the update from The Hollywood Reporter, Illumination and the Nintendo film is now the fourth film “to cross the half-billion mark domestically in the pandemic era.” The Avatar sequel ($683.9 million), the Top Gun sequel ($718.7 million) and Spider-Man: No Way Home ($814.1 million) are still ahead.
It’s also a major milestone for Illumination and Universal in the region — becoming the first film from the two to top $500 million (Note: “not adjusted for inflation”). And it set the record as the “second-highest-grossing animated film of all time” at this location, and is apparently the “third-highest Universal release of all time” behind ET, Alien, and Jurassic World.
It follows news earlier this week that The Mario Movie had a hugely successful opening in Japan and also received a lot of love in locations like Mexico, breaking even more records.
