The 'Super Mario Bros. Movie' Breaks 10 Major Box Office Records

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Los Angeles, April 10 - The video game feature adaptation is the new box office king as The Super Mario Bros. Movie exceeded all the expectations and shattered records at the domestic as well as the overseas box office.

The Illumination, Universal Pictures, and Nintendo's animated adventure opened to a joe-dropping $375.60 million over the 5-day Easter weekend at the global box office, including $204.6 million domestically (North America) and $170.9 million overseas. The worldwide debut is $100+ million more than the initial projection, which speaks about how gigantic the actual numbers are.



It is the second film based on the Super Mario game and it cost around $100 million to hit the big screens. The live-action version, "Super Mario Bros" (1993) turned out to be an epic disaster so there was added pressure on the animated feature to deliver and it didn't disappoint at all.

Despite not being liked by critics, "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" shattered many box office records in its opening weekend, thanks to the tremendous response from not only the family audiences but also from general moviegoers who awarded the film an "A" CinemaScore. Have a look at Ten Major box office records the film broke (via Variety) -

1. Biggest ever opening worldwide for an animated movie, surpassing "Frozen 2's" $358.2 million.



2. Biggest video game adaptation worldwide opening of all-time, eclipsing "Warcraft's" (2016) $210 million.

3. Biggest worldwide opening of all-time for Illumination, crossing "Despicable Me 2's" (2013) $208 million.

4. Highest opening weekend ever for an animated movie in IMAX with $21.6 million.



5. Biggest five-day (for Wednesday release) opening of all time, overtaking 2009's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" at $200 million.

6. Biggest-grossing debut ever for Illumination, beating 2015's "Minions" three-day opening weekend of $115.7 million.

7. Biggest-grossing debut ever for a video game adaptation, outdoing "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" (2022) at $72.1 million.

8. Biggest domestic opening of 2023, surpassing "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's" $106.1 million.

9. Biggest international opening of all-time for Illumination.

10. Biggest international opening of all-time for a video game movie.

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