Box Office Mojo and The Numbers say that as of Sunday, April 30, The Super Mario Bros. Movie made an estimated $490,016,000 in the United States. It made about $40 million from Friday to Sunday, putting it at the top of the U.S. box office again. The entertainment news site Deadline said on Sunday that the movie made equal of US$14.3 million in its first weekend in Japan. They called it the biggest opening ever “for an animated studio movie.” (Deadline’s meaning of “studio movie” doesn’t seem to include Japanese films, since some anime movies, like Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, made more money in Japan than they did in the U.S.
The movie has made an estimated $1,022,446,698 around the world. It is the first movie this year to make more than $1 billion and only the fifth movie since the COVID-19 pandemic to do so. Deadline says that it is the 10th animated movie to make $1 billion around the world. This makes it the #10 highest-grossing animation movie in the world. It is also the most popular animated movie in the world since 2019, and the fourth most popular movie overall since 2019.
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On April 5, the movie came out in the U.S. and more than 60 other countries. The movie made US$31,702,735 on its first day in the U.S. and US$204,630,730 in its first five days there. Since it opened on a Wednesday, it had a five-day opening frame. Deadline says that the movie’s opening weekend made an estimated $377,628,865 around the world. This is more than Frozen II’s opening weekend. The Super Mario Bros. Movie came out over five days, but Frozen II came out over the usual three days. The movie also has the biggest opening of all time for a movie based on a video game, the biggest domestic and global openings of 2023 so far, and the second-biggest domestic opening of all time for an animated movie.
The movie has made more money than any other movie in the world in 2023. The movie is also the most successful movie based on a video game ever. The movie is now the number-one movie of 2023 in 31 countries, including Australia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It is also the most popular studio cartoon or family movie in France, Italy, Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, and Bolivia since 2019.
The movie was made by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, and Matthew Fogel wrote the story. Chris Pratt and Charlie Day play Mario and Luigi in the English voice cast of the movie. Princess Peach is played by Anya Taylor-Joy. Bowser is played by Jack Black.
Seth Rogen is playing Donkey Kong, Keegan-Michael Key is playing Toad, Fred Armisen is playing Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson is playing Kamek, and Sebastian Maniscalco is playing Spike. Charles Martinet, who has voiced Mario and many other Nintendo figures in games, also voices “surprise cameos” in the movie.
The movie was made by Chris Meledandri, who started the company Illumination, and Shigeru Miyamoto, who made Super Mario Bros. Meledandri said that Miyamoto was “front and center” when this movie was made. He also said that the “original creative voice” is often missing from Hollywood movies that are based on video games.
