Super Mario Bros. The Movie ripped through the box office during its premiere

Film about Super Mario Bros. broke his first record and poised to become one of the top-grossing. In accordance with Deadline, Illumination and Universal grossed $377 million in its opening weekend. As a result, he not only became best video game opening moviebut also an animated film.

According to the figures Mr. BoxOfficeMojo, Super Mario Bros. Movie earned $204,628,865 in the US, which is 54.2% of total income. International box office totaled $173,000,000, giving a total of $377,628,865. The numbers are impressive for a film based on a video game and outperform other films such as detective pikachu And sonic 2.

In the field of animated films, Super Mario Bros. Movie stole the introductory note from incredible 2from Disney and Pixar, as well as frozen 2 from Disney. Another point to be noted is that also surpassed Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum Mania with the best income at its opening. Not only did the Marvel movie miss its goal of moving Phase 5 forward, it barely lifted half of what Mario and his henchmen did.

Super Mario Bros. Movie also surpassed batman vs superman And Quick 7which premiered during the Easter week. Screen adaptation of the popular video game for the big screen. resonated with the public, who gave him 96% rotten tomatoes. On the contrary, specialized critics give it 56%, mostly hardened people who prefer to watch three hours of Irish or some boring Slovenian film.

Super Mario Bros. and the future of video game-based films

Entries Super Mario Bros. Movie This is good news not only for Illumination, which has achieved exorbitant numbers in previous years with minions And My Favorite Villain 2. Millionaire income demonstrates a good moment that video game adaptations go through, a phenomenon that also recurs in the area streaming.

Although there are fiascos like unknown or Halotapes like sonic 2, detective pikachu and series Last of us are examples of what can be achieved when a good budget is combined with experienced people. Companies such as Sony saw the potential to extend their intellectual property to other media. The next one to land on the small screen will be Zero dawn horizon (Netflix) and god of War (Amazon)Bye Grand Touring will be released in theaters by Neil Blomkamp.

another movie that look for a second chance Street Fighter. After the crash last fight, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Capcom has decided to try its luck again and will rely on Legendary for the new film. The creators of the popular fighting game know that must remain true to the source materialtherefore they will be fully involved in the project.

If research finds out how to harness the qualities of video games, it’s likely that we’ll see more blockbuster adaptations. When that moment comes Super Mario Bros. Movie will keep the first place in the list of the most successful releases.