It was only a matter of time. With estimates through Sunday, Enlightenment/Nintendo/Universal The movie Super Mario Bros is expected to cross $1 billion worldwide tomorrow, making it the first release of the milestone in 2023 and the fifth of the pandemic era. It will arrive in 26 days. Wow!
The Aaron Horvath/Michael Jelenic-led juggernaut sailed past $900 million worldwide earlier this week and runs through Friday. $970 million. Of that, $483 million is of international box office, domestic is on top $487 million.
This weekend saw new openings in the Korea and Japan majors in particular. As of Friday, its Korean gross of $1.65 million is second. In Japan, the game is strong.
This is Chris Meledandri’s Illumination’s third title to break the $1 billion mark.
Super Mario Bros was already the #1 release of 2023 worldwide. Reaching $1 billion means Mario & Luigi is now the biggest animated title in the world as of 2019 and the #1 studio animated film for the same period. Super Mario is now Universal’s #3 biggest animated film of all time (behind followers And Despicable Me 3, caught up Minions: The Rise of Gru).
Other milestones: The Plumbers is Universal’s seventh highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, tied Jurassic world domination And Despicable Me. Pic is also the fourth biggest film since 2019 in terms of worldwide ticket sales Jurassic world domination, Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness And Minions: The Rise of Gru.
Meldandri attended CinemaCon in Las Vegas last week and accepted an award for excellence in animation on Thursday. At the time, he said he snuck into three different theaters on opening weekend to see how audiences were watching the film. At one point, he said the audience, made up of grandparents, children, couples and people in costume, “was just having a great time.” He said: “I realized that at that time there were 25,000 theaters around the world playing our film and there was some joy that we were serving that audience at a time when the world was joyful. . bad.” The film made history with the biggest worldwide opening of all time for an animated title.
To the assembled exhibitors, he said, “This whole art form is not going to slip through our fingers because everyone here is determined to make it great like never before.”
Source: Deadline
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