Well, guess we know who wins THAT argument at the next Smash planning meeting.
Mario's animated big screen debut has been a record breaker at the box office.
Early weekend returns for the Nintendo / Illumination collaboration have it tracking for a box office take of US$146.36m for its opening weekend in the United States, with a total take of $204.6m since its launch according to sources at Illumination parent company Universal. This represents the third largest Easter weekend launch ever (trailing 2016's Batman v Superman at $181m and 2015's Fast 7 at $161m), the largest total ever recorded for a five day release (beating 2009's Transformers: Age of the Fallen) and more than doubling the record for a video game adaptation's opening weekend (2022's Sonic the Hedgehog 2 at $71.6m).
With international totals included, the Super Mario Bros movie now has the highest gross ever for an animated film's opening weekend worldwide as well; the new record estimate being $377.2m, and this three weeks before it launches in Japan.
The $377 million is worldwide for 5 days.
In the US, it made $146 million over the 3-day weekend (and $204 million Wednesday to Sunday)
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1930593025/
Miyamoto is the greatest videogame creator ever and after one movie he's easily on his way to being the greatest film producer ever as well!!! Hideo Kojima must be rolling over in hisgraveoffice! His cinematic endeavors can't compete with this.
