‘Super Mario Bros’ continues unstoppable and is close to one billion dollars at the box office

Illumination Studios’ animated film, “Super Mario Bros”, has already been on display for three weeks in theaters around the world and has managed to become a gigantic and unexpected success, because this family title has not stopped accumulating figures at the box office since its release, and has now surpassed $900 million at the worldwide box office.

According to reports, ‘Super Mario Bros’ it’s close to a billion dollars at the box office worldwidefor which it would become the fourth film, since the beginning of the pandemic, to exceed the aforementioned grossing figure, since only ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Avatar: Path of Water ‘.

Currently, this Illumination Studios and Nintendo films already has the record of being the animated film with the best premiere in the entire history of cinema, it also managed to be the highest grossing film based on a video game of all time, which makes evident the success that this has fun family movie game.

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The most surprising thing is that no one was able to predict the result that ‘Super Mario Bros’ would have at this point, since, although it is true that cinema specialists predicted that this title would recoup their investment and little more, no one imagined that Three weeks after the release of this film, it would be close to equaling the record of “Top: Gun Maverick”, or even close to the all-time record of “Frozen 2”, which is 1.4 billion dollars of revenue.

How much did ‘Super Mario Bros’ cost to make?

If you are one of those who wonder what was the budget that Illumination Studios and Universal Studios earmarked for the making of ‘Super Mario Bros’, you should know that this title has almost multiplied its initial investment by 10, because this family animated film had a cost of 100 million dollars, which may seem high, but it is far from being spent generated by other Pixar and Disney titles.

With the success it has achievedSuper Mario Bros’, there is already talk of a possible sequel to this story, which has not yet been confirmed by Illumination Studios, nor by Universal Studios, however, with the trend of these production companies in previous blockbusters, it is very likely that very One second and the third film of this animated world born in Nintendo video games will also be announced soon.

Also one of the main actors in ‘Super Mario Bros’, Jack Black, talked about a possible second part of this story, indicating that in this alleged new film Wario should appear as the villain, moreover, the artist said that this evil character should be played by Chilean actor Pedro Pascal , something that would be applauded by many fans.