Update #2 [Mon 24th Apr, 2023 03:00 BST]:
according to varietythe Mario movie has now reached $871 million at the box office and is projected to join the “Billion Dollar Club” within “the next week or so”. It has earned approximately $437.5 million to date at the international box office.
Update #1 [Sun 23rd Apr, 2023 02:05 BST]:
As expected, the Mario movie is set to break even more records this weekend. wrap reported that the box office was estimated at over $58 million. It is also believed to be the “seventh highest” movie of all time.
original story [Sat 22nd Apr, 2023 06:35 BST]:
The Mario movie is already the biggest video game adaptation ever, and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon.
The latest update estimates that Nintendo and Illumination’s animated film will top $830 million at the global box office by the end of this weekend (Via Forbes) – A recent report suggests not only reaching the $1 billion mark, but surpassing it in the near future.
As you can see, the movie website is hollywood reporter already believes it will be “the first movie of the year to cross $1 billion” at the worldwide box office. It surpassed the previous record holders, Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantumania, in about a week.
The movie Super Mario Bros. had already grossed over $700 million worldwide at the end of its second weekend. Additionally, other markets such as Japan won’t be available until the end of this month.
