Hollywood
The Super Mario Bros. Movie Crossed $1 Billion At The Worldwide Box Office
Los Angeles, April 30 - The first film of 2023 to cross the coveted $1 billion milestone is here!## Universal, Illumination, and Nintendo's video game adaptation animated movie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie has officially become crossed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office through the 4th Sunday. ## "Super Mario Bros." is the first animated movie and the 5th overall to cross the $1 billion mark in the post-pandemic era, after "Spider-Man: No Way Home", "Top Gun: Maverick", "Jurassic World Dominion", and "Avatar: The Way of Water". ## It has grossed $490 million in North America and $532 million at the international box office so far, becoming the only video game movie to top $1 billion globally. Overall, the "Super Mario Bros. Movie" is the 52nd film of all time to breach this box office milestone. ## The top 10 markets for the movie are as follows - 1. North America ($490M), 2. Mexico ($73.2M), 3. The UK ($56.4M), 4. Germany ($43.9M), 5. France ($40.8M), 6. Australia ($31.1M), 7. Spain ($22M), 8. China ($21M), 9. Brazil ($20.6M), 10. Italy ($19.6M).## Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, the movie was released on April 5 worldwide and took a gigantic opening of $375+ million over the 5-day weekend, the biggest of 2023 so far. It is currently the 4th highest-grossing movie in the post covid era and the 49th biggest-grosser of all time. ## The film follows the Brooklyn-based plumbers known as Mario and Luigi, who are sucked into the mystical Mushroom Kingdom. Along with Princess Peach, they prepare to stop the mighty Bowser from total domination. ## Stay tuned...
