Super Mario Bros. Movie is steadily reaching its billion box office milestone. Learn more about its worldwide sales, top 10 biggest second weekends, and the factors that contributed to the movie's success.
Super Mario Bros. Movie Reaches $700 Million Sales
Outstanding Support From Fans
Every Sunday, Hollywood Studios release the estimated weekend gross for their movies. For Super Mario Bros. Movie, Sunday estimates for the April 14-16 weekend showed the Nintendo Movie earning $87 million domestically in its second weekend, toppling Frozen II to the chart.
Overseas sales are also outstanding. The movie crossed $700 million in worldwide sales on Monday after finishing Sunday with overseas support of $339.8 Million and an additional $353.3 million domestically for a 12-day global tally of a whopping $693.1 million.
Below is Comscore's list of the top 10 biggest second weekends at the North American box office:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $149.2 million
Avengers: Endgame - $147.4 million
Avengers: Infinity War - $114.8 million
Black Panther - $111.8 million
Jurassic World - $106.6 million
The Avengers - $103.1 million
The Super Mario Bros. Movie - $92.5 million
2017's Beauty and the Beast - $90.4 million
Top Gun: Maverick - $90 million
Frozen II - $85.9 million
Super Mario Multigenerational Appeal Contributed To Its Success
This shows that Super Mario Bros. Movie has been steadily climbing up to join the billion-dollar club at the worldwide box office. If it does push through, it will become the third movie during the pandemic to obtain the milestone behind Spiderman: No Way Home and Top Gun: Maverick. The animated films that have cleared the billion mark are topped by Frozen II, followed by Frozen, Incredibles 2, and Minions. With Illumination being one of the production companies for the movie, Super Mario Bros. Movie can see that can see that billion ticket sales waving.
Super Mario continues to surpass multiple records from its debut over the Easter holiday, and this feat may be attributed to its multigenerational appeal to Nintendo's Mario video game fans. Since the movie is on an all-audience tentpole, the moviegoers range from consumers ages 18 to 40s, those who grew up playing Mario games, to families-- parents and kids deeming the animated movie fun, familiar, and family-friendly.
Let us not forget the Super Mario cast like Jack Black, whose song, Peaches, may have contributed to Super Mario Bros being actively promoted on Spotify, Youtube, and other social media platforms.
