Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s movie adaptation of Nintendo’s "Super Mario Bros." video game franchise continues to dominate the box office in its second week of release, and the first movie of the year that will soon cross the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office.
It has grossed a massive $92.5 million from 4,371 theaters in its second weekend of play at the North American box office. That’s up from Sunday’s already crazy-great estimate of $87 million, which marks the biggest second weekend ever for an animated film after surpassing "Frozen 2" ($86 million).
On Sunday, Super Mario grossed $353.3 million domestically and $339.8 million overseas for a jaw-dropping global tally of $693.1 million before crossing $700 million the following day. Its foreign cume includes an impressive second-weekend gross of $102.5 million from 71 markets after dipping less than 28 percent (final foreign numbers were also up from Sunday’s estimate of $94 million). Mexico leads with a huge $52 million, already the third-best showing of all time for a Hollywood animated film.
The animated sensation smashed numerous records in its launch over the long Easter holiday. The mid-week, Mario zooms past Marvel’s "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" to rank as the top-grossing movie of the year to date at the domestic, international, and worldwide box office. It is also now the No. 1 video game adaptation of all time after passing up "Warcraft" ($439.4 million) and "Pokémon: Detective Pikachu" ($449.8 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.
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