Super Mario Bros. The Movie has officially surpassed the $500 million mark at the international box office, becoming the highest-grossing video game adaptation ever.
Super Mario Bros. The Movie surpassed the $500 million mark at the worldwide box office, the best-ever for a video game adaptation.
The animated feature has in fact surpassed Warcraft and Pokémon: Detective Pikachu in the standings.
As the site reports Variety, Super Mario Bros. The Movie has so far grossed $260.3 million in the United States and $248.4 million internationally. The total achieved by the project is therefore 508.7 million dollars.
The film, with this result, also becomes the title with the best grossing of 2023, surpassing Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
The Adventures of Mario currently has the second best box office result since 2019, falling behind Minions 2: How Gru Goes Super Evil and surpassing Demon Slayer: Mugen Train.
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In the new big-screen adaptation of the cult video game Super Mario Bros. Chris Pratt gives voice to Mario and Charlie Day to Luigi. Anya Taylor-Joy, the star of the series The Queen of Chess, is Princess Peach. Jack Black is the voice of the villain Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key is Toad, Seth Rogen is Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen is Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson is Kamek and comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is Spike.
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The production team includes Illumination’s Chris Meledandri and Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto. The director of the animated film are instead engaged Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, former authors of series such as Teen Titans Go!. Matthew Fogel (Minions 2) penned the script.