"Super Mario Bros. Movie" Breaks Box Office Records

Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s movie adaptation of Nintendo’s "Super Mario Bros." video game franchise is already a massive hit. 

The animated movie — a collaboration between Illumination, Nintendo and Universal — debuted over the holiday long weekend and crushed already-high expectations, raking in $204 million at the domestic box office, with $146 million of that coming over the usual three-day weekend. Factoring in the international box office, "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" has earned over $377 million.

With these impressive totals, the movie now has the second-highest three-day weekend opening of any animated movie domestically behind "The Incredibles 2" at $182 million. 

The movie did even better internationally, becoming the biggest global animated movie opening, breaking the previous record of $358 million held by "Frozen 2".

The movie opened in 70 overseas territories, including Mexico ($27.4 million), the U.K. and Ireland ($19.6 million), Germany ($14 million), China ($12 million), France ($10.4 million), Spain ($8.6 million), and Australia ($8.3 million).

This also makes Mario the biggest release of 2023, besting Disney and Marvel’s "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" — a movie that seemed to be a bit of a disappointment for the superhero franchise juggernaut. Just to round out the record-breaking, "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" also earned the top spot as the biggest opening for a video game movie ever, besting "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" at $72 million.

"Super Mario Bros. Movie" is the first cinematic adventure of the beloved Italian plumber and his gang in almost three decades.

The voice ensemble includes Chris Pratt as Mairo Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, and Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike.

Original Mario voice actor Charles Martinet will have a cameo role in the movie.

"Super Mario Bros." is directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic from a script by Matt Fogel.