Surprising no one,The Super Mario Bros. Moviehas been doing extremely well at the box office. However, I’m not sure many of us saw it doing so well in such a short amount of time. In just 26 days, the video game adaptation is set to surpass $1 billion, that is “billion” with a “b”. With that kind of dough, Mario is just cosplaying a plumber at this point.Deadlinereports that the estimates through Sunday see The Super Mario Bros. Movie crossing the $1 billion mark globally. This comes after the film “sailed past $900M worldwide” earlier this week. While this weekend’s openings in Korea and Japan helped boost the film’s numbers, it was already well on track to reach that goal. In fact, many reports had the moviereaching this goallast week, prior to its Japanese release.Related:The Super Mario Bros. Movie Has A Different Script For Its Japanese ReleaseAgain, the success of the film should not come as a shock. Since its release earlier this month, the movie has been breaking records and sailing past expectations. Its record-breaking opening weekend saw the Italian plumber and his green brother overtaking Marvel’s third Ant-Man film at the box office. Plus, it quickly beat Frozen 2 for thebest-performing animated filmin its debut week. If Scott Lang and Elsa couldn’t stop Mario, nothing can.
The film currently sits as thebest-performing video game adaptationever after surpassing Warcraft and Detective Pikachu. Oddly enough, it is also the third film from Illumination Studios to cross the $1 billion mark and the third-biggest animated film ever. It sits just behind Minions and Despicable Me 3 proving that overalls are totally in at the moment.
Of course, it wasn’t all smooth sailing for Mario’s animated adventure. When Chris Pratt was announced as the voice of everyone’s favorite pipe-hopping plumber, people weremore than a little upset. Especially when iconicMario voice artist Chris Martinetis right there for the taking. Then, the film’s first trailer added fuel to the fire with Pratt seemingly not utilizing an Italian inflexion in his Mario voice. Throw in some drama aboutthe size of Mario’s dump truck, and it wasn’t looking good.
However, people still showed up to the theaters despite their Pratt trepidations, proving that nostalgia will always win. Now, the film has banked a ton of coin and there are talks ofsequels, anOscar nomination, and an entireNintendo Cinematic Universe. Personally, I can’t wait for the Avengers-style film starring Mario, Link, and Samus.
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