"The Super Mario Bros Movie" breaks records and leaks on Twitter

Domagoj Belancic

2.5.2023

Translation: machine translated

After just one month, "The Super Mario Bros Movie" has generated one billion dollars in sales. This makes the Mario film by far the most successful video game adaptation of all time.

The "Super Mario Bros Film" is unstoppable. Around four weeks after its cinema release, Mario's colourful adventure in the Mushroom Kingdom has grossed one billion dollars worldwide. Of this, 490 million was generated in the USA and 532 million dollars outside the United States. There is no end in sight to the wave of success - the film was only released in Japan and South Korea last week.

This makes "The Super Mario Bros Movie" the most successful release in the 2023 cinema year to date. It is also already the tenth most successful animated film and by far the most successful video game adaptation of all time. The plumber easily leaves gaming greats such as "Pokémon", "Sonic the Hedgehog" and "Angry Birds" in his wake. The top ten currently looks like this:

1. The Super Mario Bros Movie
   • 1.02 billion
2. Warcraft
   • 439 million
3. Detective Pikachu
   • 433 million
4. Rampage
   • 428 million
5. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
   • 405 million
6. Uncharted
   • 401 million
7. The Angry Birds Movie
   • 352 million
8. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
   • 336 million
9. Sonic the Hedghehog
   • 320 million
10. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
    • 312 million

At Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a public voting score of 96% with over 10,000 votes. In comparison, the trade press gave Mario's animated debut a very poor score of 59%.

Film producer and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto even believes that the poor reviews have contributed to the film's immense success

What Luca, Michelle, Phil and I have to say about the film can be read here:

Audience of millions also on Twitter

The Super Mario Bros Movie is not only a success at the cinema. Last week, the full-length film was uploaded several times on Twitter. This was made possible by the new upload function for Twitter Blue subscribers. This allows video clips of up to one hour to be uploaded in high quality.

The clips generated millions of views until they were only discovered and deleted after several days (!), as Musk had previously fired a large part of Twitter's security and compliance team. Anyone who knows Nintendo knows that it's better not to mess with the Japanese video game giant when it comes to copyright https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/8/22823767/team-xecuter-gary-bowser-nintendo-lawsuit-10-million.

Domagoj Belancic

Senior Editor

Domagoj.Belancic@digitecgalaxus.ch

My love of video games was unleashed at the tender age of five by the original Gameboy. Over the years, it's grown in leaps and bounds.