'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' Is The First 2023 Film To Reach $1B, 10th Animated Film In History To Do So

"The Super Mario Bros. Movie" made waves in the film industry again by hitting the $1 billion mark at the global box office.

As reported by Variety, the movie has raked in $490 million in North America and an additional $532 million in international markets.

This impressive feat comes just a month after its highly successful opening weekend, and the movie has managed to maintain its position as the top film for four consecutive weekends.

This achievement makes "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" the 10th animated film in history to cross the $1 billion mark, after surpassing the $942.5 million grossed by 2019's "Minions: The Rise of the Gru." 

Other films part of the top 10 list of all-time box office animated champions are Disney's remake of "The Lion King" ($1.66 billion), "Frozen 2" ($1.45 billion), "Frozen" ($1.28 billion), "Incredibles 2" ($1.24 billion), and "Minions" ($1.15 billion).

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"The Super Mario Bros Movie" has also surpassed all other video game adaptations in global box office sales. It has overtaken movies such as "Pokemon Detective Pikachu" and "Warcraft," which grossed $433 million and $439 million, respectively. This is a major achievement for the movie and the video game industry as a whole.

The computer-animated adventure film was produced by Nintendo ADR NTDOY and Illumination Entertainment, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, which is a division of Comcast Corp. CMCSA.

Recently, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto expressed his surprise and satisfaction with the film's success during a press conference in Japan and revealed he thought the poor reviews actually improved the film's performance, rather than holding it back.

"While many foreign critics have given the movie relatively low ratings, I think that also contributed to the movie’s notoriety and buzz," he said.

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