Super Mario Bros. Movie It has already crossed one billion dollars in box office collectionwhich became the first film of 2023 to reach this milestone, while it continues to break and is poised to break more records.

The Universal, Illumination and Nintendo film, which has been in theaters since April 5, has been a success everywhere it’s been released except in China, where it barely made $13.3 million in its first release. week in theaters despite having good reviews from critics in the country. The data is important because China is the world’s biggest market after the United States, and success there can depend on a film reaching stratospheric heights.

The fact is more than anecdotal, because with last week’s data there is a total collection Super Mario Bros. Movie in China it stagnated at 20.5 million, while in countries such as Spain or Italy this amount reached 19.6 and 17.2 million. In the United States alone, the box office was $434.3 million. All of this, it’s worth repeating, with last week’s data.

Interestingly, only last weekend the film was released in Japan with a version specially adapted for its market and with a very good response from the public.

Things are looking up with yesterday’s figures at 490 million from the US box office and 532 million from international box office support Super Mario Bros. Movie on several stages and also project it onto others who may or may not be able to do it yet. The new adaptation of the most popular video game character has already reached the billion mark, becoming the first film of the year to do so.

Except, Super Mario Bros. Movie Yippee the fifth “post-pandemic” film to manage to amass that amountthen, by invoicing order, Avatar: The Sense of Water ($2,318), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1,921) a Top Gun: Maverick ($1,493), from Jurassic World: Dominion ($1,001) has already exceeded it. Being almost a month out from its theatrical release, it doesn’t seem like things have gone much further as we see signs of the other films, but you never know.

Be that as it may, Super Mario Bros. Movie he was already crowned the highest-grossing film based on a video game in history and not by a long shot, and the record was held warcraft: origins with $439 million (achieved, oddly enough, thanks to its success in China, as it was a failure in the rest of the world). The list continues with Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, Rampage, sonic 2 movie and Unchartedall over 400 million.

Super Mario Bros. Movie She also broke several other records, but of lesser depth or very specific; However, it remains to be seen how far it will go as an animated film, a list it has also slipped into with nuance through various holes, but has yet to reach. top ten world. And there’s no doubt he’ll do it this week. The question is how deep you will have the entrance, and the slope is significant.