Last Updated: April 15, 2023, 03:40 IST
It is now the second-biggest animated film since 2019, with only fellow Illumination release Minions: The Rise of Gru earning more with $942.5 million. (Image: Super Mario Movie/Twitter)
This knocks off Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which held the title of the year’s previous best earner with $474.4 million in global ticket sales
Universal and Illumination’s video game adaptation, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, has become the highest-grossing 2023 release to date at the global box office, earning over $500 million in under a week, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
This knocks off Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which held the title of the year’s previous best earner with $474.4 million in global ticket sales.
In addition to being the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time, the movie has surpassed the records set by Warcraft and Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, with earnings of $508.7 million in worldwide ticket sales through Thursday.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, the domestic gross of Super Mario through Thursday stands at $260.3 million, making it the top-performing movie of the year to date. Meanwhile, its earnings overseas total $248.4 million.
It is now the second-biggest animated film since 2019, with only fellow Illumination release Minions: The Rise of Gru earning more with $942.5 million.
The movie is already among Universal’s top ten biggest animated films of all time at the global box office and one of only thirteen Hollywood movies to cross the $500 million mark worldwide since 2019.
Among the thirteen, Universal produced five, including Jurassic World: Dominion, Rise of Gru, F9: The Fast Saga, and No Time to Die.
